Quotes by Alan Paton
Alan Paton (1903–1988) — Schriftsteller, Anti-Apartheid-Aktivist · Anglikanisch · Südafrika
Alan Paton (1903–1988) war ein südafrikanischer Schriftsteller, Reformpädagoge und Politiker, der sich aus anglikanischer Glaubensüberzeugung gegen das Apartheid-Regime engagierte. Durch seinen Roman „Denn sie sollen getröstet werden“ weltbekannt, trat er für gleiche Bürgerrechte und Versöhnung ein, stieß jedoch mit seinem strikten Pazifismus und seiner Ablehnung von Wirtschaftssanktionen später auch bei radikaleren Anti-Apartheid-Gruppen auf Kritik. Für Bibelleser verdeutlichen seine Schriften, wie christlicher Glaube und Nächstenliebe mit dem Einsatz gegen gesellschaftliches Unrecht verbunden sind.
Era: The 20th Century
Recurring topics: Love, Ethical Questions, Suffering & the Question of God, Justice & Commitment, Guilt & Forgiveness, Fear & Anxiety, Hope & Confidence, Freedom & Truth
Quotes by Alan Paton
The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
Alan Paton
But there is only one thing that has power completely, and this is love. Because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
Alan Paton
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.
Alan Paton
Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret. But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
Alan Paton
There is a hard law. When an injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.
Alan Paton
Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
Alan Paton
I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
Alan Paton
I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering. 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.
Alan Paton
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.
Alan Paton
Meneer, if man takes unto himself God's right to punish, then he must also take upon himself God's promise to restore.
Alan Paton
For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
Alan Paton
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.
Alan Paton
But when that dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
Alan Paton
The Judge does not make the law. It is the 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.
Alan Paton
It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
Alan Paton
Something within me is waking from long sleep, and I want to live and move again. Some zest is returning to me, some immense gratefulness for those who love me, some strong wish to love them also. I am full of thanks for life. I have not told myself to be thankful. I am just so.
Alan Paton
Sources: wikipedia.org, encyclopaediaafricana.com, authorscalendar.info, britannica.com
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