Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
ALAN PATONAlthough nothing has come yet, something is here already.
ALAN PATONOne day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
ALAN PATONTherefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
ALAN PATONBut I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
ALAN PATONForgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
ALAN PATONI couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
ALAN PATONAnd 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.
ALAN PATONThere is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
ALAN PATONIf you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
ALAN PATONIt was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
ALAN PATONCry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
ALAN PATONThe Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
ALAN PATONThe truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
ALAN PATONPeople hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
ALAN PATONIt is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
ALAN PATONI have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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