For 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 PATONThe sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
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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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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
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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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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
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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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The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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