When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
ALAN PATONThe ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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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In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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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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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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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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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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