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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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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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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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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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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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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? I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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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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The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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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.
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
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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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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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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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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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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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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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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret. But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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