I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
ALAN PATONTherefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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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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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.
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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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Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
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If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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