One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
ALAN PATONThere is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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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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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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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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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.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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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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