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.
ALAN PATONLife has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
ALAN PATONHappy the eyes that can close
ALAN PATONThe only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
ALAN PATONThe ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
ALAN PATONThen some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
ALAN PATONWhat broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
ALAN PATONCry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
ALAN PATONPain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
ALAN PATONBut when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
ALAN PATONCry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved.
ALAN PATONI have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
ALAN PATONIt is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
ALAN PATONSadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
ALAN PATONBut perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school.
ALAN PATONThere 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.
ALAN PATONWhen the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
ALAN PATON