But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
ALAN PATONThere is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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And man’s destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man’s humanity to man and man’s reverence for the place in which he lives.
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For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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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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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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St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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