Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
ALAN PATONBut 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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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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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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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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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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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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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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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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