Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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 PATONThere is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
ALAN PATONMoney is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
ALAN PATONI have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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 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 PATONAnd money is not something to go mad about …
ALAN PATONThis is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
ALAN PATONLife has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
ALAN PATONSadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
ALAN PATONBut the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
ALAN PATONWhen a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
ALAN PATONOne day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
ALAN PATONThe only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
ALAN PATONWhen men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
ALAN PATONSt. 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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