What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
ALAN PATONThe tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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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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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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St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
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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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But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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