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.
ALAN PATON
When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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Cry 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.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for?
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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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For 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.
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St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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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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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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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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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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I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
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