Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
ALAN PATONThere are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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 to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
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Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.
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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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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
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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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