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.
ALAN PATONThere is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
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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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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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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.
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In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls.
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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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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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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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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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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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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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For 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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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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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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