Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
ALAN PATONBuilding on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
ALAN PATONThere is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
ALAN PATONThe Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
ALAN PATONThe ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
ALAN PATONThere is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.
ALAN PATONI have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
ALAN PATONMoney is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
ALAN PATONFor 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 PATONAll roads lead to Johannesburg.
ALAN PATONWhen the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
ALAN PATONThere is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
ALAN PATONThese hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
ALAN PATONIt is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
ALAN PATONBut when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
ALAN PATONWho knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
ALAN PATONPain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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