I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
ALAN PATONSt. 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 sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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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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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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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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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply… For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
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