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?
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.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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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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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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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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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.
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But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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