Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
ALAN PATONI have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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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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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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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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Sorrow is better than fear.
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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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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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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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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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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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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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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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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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It is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
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