Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
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.
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
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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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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
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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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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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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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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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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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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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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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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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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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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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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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