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.
ALAN PATONIt was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
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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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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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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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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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Sadness 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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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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