The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
ALAN PATONThe ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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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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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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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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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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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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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
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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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But 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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