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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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 Stewart Paton
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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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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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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival. When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house. 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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And money is not something to go mad about ... 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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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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It is not forgive and forget as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but forgive and go forward, building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi. 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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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man's inhumanity to man, 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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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
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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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If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.
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The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?... 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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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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