And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
ALAN PATONWhat broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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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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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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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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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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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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