I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
ALAN PATONAnd money is not something to go mad about …
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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Wise 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.
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Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.
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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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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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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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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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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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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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There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.
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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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What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire.
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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