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Alan Paton

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.
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Believe Come Knew Lord Our Suffer
The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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Endurable Inhumanity Make Man Only Way
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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Back Broad Compassion Full Gold Heaven Nothing Purse Reach
There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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Completely Love One Only Power Thing
Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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Behind Eat Fool Nothing Panel Polish Wood
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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Day Fera Great Heart Love One Turn
Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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Ask Expedient Right Yourself
The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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Judge Law Make People
She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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Endeavor God Leave Result Seek Sustenance Taught
What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
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Beat Broke Death Down Flesh Heart Knife Living Thrust
When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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Dep Done Forgive Injury Recover Until
And money is not something to go mad about …
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Mad Money Something
People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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Danger Hime Hurry Past People Place Safe
The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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Again Mend Thing Tragedy
It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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Belief Fear Love Only Power Resist
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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Any Big Go Intention Judge Say Will Wound

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