I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
ALAN PATONSomething deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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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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What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved.
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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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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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