I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
ALAN PATONThe ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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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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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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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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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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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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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply… For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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