It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
ALAN PATONSadness 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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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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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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It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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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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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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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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Happy the eyes that can close
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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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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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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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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I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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