When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
ALAN PATONBut 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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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school.
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And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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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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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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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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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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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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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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