Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
ALAN PATONFor our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.
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Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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