For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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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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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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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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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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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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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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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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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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