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.
ALAN PATONWho knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
More Alan Paton Quotes
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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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 to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
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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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Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
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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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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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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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