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 PATONForgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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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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We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
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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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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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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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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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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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