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 PATONThere is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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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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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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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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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
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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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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?
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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