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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Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls.
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One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school.
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But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for.
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire.
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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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