Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
ALAN PATONWhat 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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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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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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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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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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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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