Occupation: Author Birth: January 11, 1903 Death: April 12, 1988
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 ….
Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives,….
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, ….
Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right..
But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school, then some unknown….
I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society..
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 no….
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..
But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power..
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?.
There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love..
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 hi….
The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again..
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..
When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it..
Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving..
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 ener….
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 s….
When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive..
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 sa….
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..