This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
ALAN PATONI have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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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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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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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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And man’s destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man’s humanity to man and man’s reverence for the place in which he lives.
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And 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.
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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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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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