When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
ALAN PATONBut what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
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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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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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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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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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