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.
ALAN PATONMoney is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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It is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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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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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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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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Happy the eyes that can close
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Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
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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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Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.
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