And 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 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.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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The 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.
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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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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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
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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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When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for?
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school.
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