She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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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Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved.
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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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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.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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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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The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
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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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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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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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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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