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 PATONAlthough nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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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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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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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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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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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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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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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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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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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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