When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
ALAN PATONWhat broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
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If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
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But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school.
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Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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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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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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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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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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