It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
ALAN PATONIt is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
ALAN PATONNosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
ALAN PATONBut perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school.
ALAN PATONFor it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
ALAN PATONAll roads lead to Johannesburg.
ALAN PATONBut 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.
ALAN PATONForgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
ALAN PATONThere is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
ALAN PATONThe tragedy is not that things are broken.
ALAN PATONNor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.
ALAN PATONWhat broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
ALAN PATONFor our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.
ALAN PATONAnd money is not something to go mad about …
ALAN PATONThere is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
ALAN PATONBut sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
ALAN PATONLet me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.
ALAN PATON