It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
Interpretation
Love is the strongest force that can overcome fear.
In this quote, Alan Paton suggests that love has the unique ability to counteract and resist fear, which often paralyzes individuals and communities. He emphasizes that love empowers us to confront our fears and challenges, highlighting its importance as a transformative and protective force in our lives.
In practice
A motivational speech about facing challenges in relationships.
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.
Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
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.
If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.
My God,' he gasped, 'you're fun to kiss.
God's love is an exercise of his goodness toward sinners who merit only condemnation.
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be_x000D_ _x000D_ And so I put this on my life_x000D_ _x000D_ Nobody or nothing will ever come between us_x000D_ _x000D_ And I promise I'll give my life
Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.
Just to be in love seemed the most blissful luxury I had ever known. The thought came to me that perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return -- that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness. For a moment I felt that I had discovered a great truth.
I'll find you. Don't worry. Just be on your own and I'll find you.
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