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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.

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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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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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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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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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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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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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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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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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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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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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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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