It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
ALAN PATONIt was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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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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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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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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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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Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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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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Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.
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When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for?
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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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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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