Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
ALAN PATONBuilding on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
ALAN PATONThen some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
ALAN PATONBut 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.
ALAN PATONNow God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
ALAN PATONThe only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
ALAN PATONI am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
ALAN PATONWhat broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
ALAN PATONThe ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
ALAN PATONMoney is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
ALAN PATONMoney is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
ALAN PATONAnd were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
ALAN PATONThe 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 a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
ALAN PATONBut to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
ALAN PATONSuch development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
ALAN PATONWhat broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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