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St. 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 perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school.
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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Beyond Covered Grass Love Roll Sing
There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Hill Lovely Raed Run
Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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All Forgive Trespass Us
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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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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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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And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
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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.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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Christian Free Suffer Thought
She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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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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Book Hard Human Many Struggle Understand Wisdom Write
Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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Been Before Bring Come Death Destructive Lighten never Such Thunder
Happy the eyes that can close
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Close Eye Happy One Liner
There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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Dep Done Forgive Injury Recover Until
For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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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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