St. 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.
ALAN PATONI have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
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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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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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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls.
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The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
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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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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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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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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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