Quotes on Cry The Beloved Country

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.

because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.

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

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.

We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.

But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.

For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for. Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes. Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.

I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.

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

For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.

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.

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.