But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
ALAN PATONFor mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for.
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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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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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Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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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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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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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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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
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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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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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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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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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