And man’s destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man’s humanity to man and man’s reverence for the place in which he lives.
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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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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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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It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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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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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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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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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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