Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
ALAN PATONWhen 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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But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
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Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
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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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But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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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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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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But 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.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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