Alan Paton Quotes, Home Quotes, Sleep Quotes

There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days. Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction. People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger. And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Paton Quotes , Home Quotes , Sleep Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Paton Quotes , Money Quotes , Children Quotes

For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Paton Quotes , Giving Quotes , Unborn Child Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Paton Quotes , Cry The Beloved Country Quotes , One Thing Quotes

But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Paton Quotes , Love Quotes , Men Quotes

Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Paton Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Paton Quotes , Christian Quotes , Country Quotes

There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Paton Quotes , Running Quotes , Lovely Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Paton Quotes , Pain Quotes , Kindness Quotes

I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Paton Quotes , Love Quotes , Peace Quotes

Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Paton Quotes

Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Paton Quotes , Life Quotes , Standards Quotes

I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Paton Quotes , Morbid Quotes , Preoccupation Quotes

But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Paton Quotes , Sorrow Quotes , May Quotes

When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Paton Quotes , Fear Quotes , Men Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Paton Quotes , St Francis Of Assisi Quotes , Use Quotes

There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills. These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Paton Quotes , Running Quotes , Lovely Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Paton Quotes , Journey Quotes , Men Quotes

Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Paton Quotes , Names Quotes , Rivers Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Paton Quotes , Compassion Quotes , Heaven Quotes