The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
ALAN PATONThere is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.
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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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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.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for.
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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
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Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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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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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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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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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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