Sorrow is better than fear.
ALAN PATONSorrow is better than fear.
ALAN PATONFor fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
ALAN PATONMoney is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
ALAN PATONShe taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
ALAN PATONAnd whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
ALAN PATONWe do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
ALAN PATONWise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
ALAN PATONAnd money is not something to go mad about …
ALAN PATONBut sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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 PATONAnd 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.
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 PATONSomething deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
ALAN PATONFor 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.
ALAN PATONIn the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls.
ALAN PATONCry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
ALAN PATON