I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
ALAN PATONThe tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
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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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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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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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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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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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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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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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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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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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