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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.
Alan Paton
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Alan Paton
Age: 85 †
Born: 1903
Born: January 11
Died: 1988
Died: April 12
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Alan Patton
Alan Stewart Paton
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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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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices. 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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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. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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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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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator. 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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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, then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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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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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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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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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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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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St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
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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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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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