But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
ALAN PATONThe truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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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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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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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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