And money is not something to go mad about …
ALAN PATONI am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for?
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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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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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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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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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Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.
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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 I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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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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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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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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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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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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