It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
ALAN PATONThe truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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It is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
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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 never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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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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It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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