When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
ALAN PATONThere is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply… For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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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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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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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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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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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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