It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
ALAN PATONThe ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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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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It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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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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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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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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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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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 one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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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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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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