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 to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply… For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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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.
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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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I 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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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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Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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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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