I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
ALAN PATONThere is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.
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What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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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 Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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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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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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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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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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