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But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.

Alan Paton

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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Country Creation Great Healer Make Taught Use Wound
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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According Judge Justice Law Unjust
Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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Already Although Come Nothing Something
It is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
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Cost Done Men One Other Permissible Possession These Thing
Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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Born Buy Earth Fruit Land Money
Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire.
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Deep Earth FIner Fire Let Love Make Sun Through
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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Day Fera Great Heart Love One Turn
Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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Clothes Comfort Food Money Picture Visit
There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Hill Lovely Raed Run
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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Christian Civilization Compound Fearful Grant Ideal Love Possession Practice Tragic Truth
I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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Achieve Always Found Love Morbid Preoccupation Save Shortcoming Society
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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Can God Heal Hill Music Name Now River Such Thank
Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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Ever Except Foot Nothing Quiet
Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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Bird Land Move Sing
The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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Capitulate Country Destroy Go Himself Nowhere Rather
The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
ALAN PATON

Judge Law Make People

But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.

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