But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.
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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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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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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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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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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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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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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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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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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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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