I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
ALAN PATONKeep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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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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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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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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I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
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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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Sorrow is better than fear.
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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 have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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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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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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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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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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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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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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