I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
ALAN PATONI have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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It is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
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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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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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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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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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And 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.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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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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The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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