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?
ALAN PATONShe taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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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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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
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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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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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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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Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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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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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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