Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offenses.
Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that's the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing. Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.
Happy the eyes that can close.
I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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.
It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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.
It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
It is not permissible to add to one's possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men. Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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.
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.
Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law. Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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.
The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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.
There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.
To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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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