The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
ALAN PATONWhen men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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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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Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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The 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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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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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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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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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
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