When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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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 in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire.
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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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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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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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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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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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