When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for?
ALAN PATONFor fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
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St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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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.
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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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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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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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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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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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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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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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