For 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.
ALAN PATONBut perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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And man’s destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man’s humanity to man and man’s reverence for the place in which he lives.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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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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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
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