For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating 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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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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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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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.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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There 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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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
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