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"God forgives us... who am I not to forgive?"
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"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell."
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"When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers."
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"Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above."
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"God and other artists are always a little obscure....."
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"If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him."
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"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."
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"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it."
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"I have only ever made one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."
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"Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door."
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"You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion."
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"When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive."
Forgiveness
"But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power."
Power
"God forgives us... who am I not to forgive?"
God
"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, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom."
Wisdom
"What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?"
Man
"To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man."
Society
"You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right."
Righteousness
"If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing."
Concern
"Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply... For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much."
Love
"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."
Nation
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