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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.

Alan Paton

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Alan Paton
Age: 85 †
Born: 1903
Born: January 11
Died: 1988
Died: April 12
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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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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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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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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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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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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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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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