There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
ALAN PATONAll roads lead to Johannesburg.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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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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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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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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And money is not something to go mad about …
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Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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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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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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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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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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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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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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