Alan Paton on comfort
Alan Paton98 quotes“Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.”
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
Alan PatonAlan Paton These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
Alan PatonAlan Paton The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
Alan PatonAlan Paton Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
Alan PatonAlan Paton There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
Alan PatonAlan Paton What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
Alan PatonAlan Paton I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
Alan PatonAlan Paton For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
Alan PatonAlan Paton People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
Alan PatonAlan Paton Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
Alan PatonAlan Paton One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
Alan PatonAlan Paton 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.
Alan PatonAlan Paton 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?
Alan PatonAlan Paton It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
Alan PatonAlan Paton 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 PatonAlan Paton And money is not something to go mad about …
Alan PatonAlan Paton
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More on comfort
In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
Abraham VergheseAbraham Verghese True self-discovery begins where your comfort zone ends.
Adam BraunAdam Braun Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?”….I met his gaze and I did not blink. “Words of comfort,” I said to my father.
Abraham VergheseAbraham Verghese For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
PetrarchPetrarch If it were possible to meet the Beloved while laughing and in a state of comfort, why should one suffer the anguish of separation?
KabirKabir Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna Let no day slip over without some comfort received from the mouth of God.
John KnoxJohn Knox Anyone can live contentedly in circumstances of ease and comfort, health and well-being gratification and felicit
Abdu'l-BahaAbdu'l-Baha
