There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
ALAN PATONBut I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
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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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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
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And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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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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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
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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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