"Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving."

✒ #AlanPaton, South African author ("Cry, the Beloved Country"; "Too Late the Phalarope") and anti-apartheid activist, was #BOTD 11 January 1903. #Literature

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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.

Alan Paton

#OnThisDay in 1972, Revival of Kurt Weill and #MaxwellAnderson's musical "Lost in the Stars" based on the novel "Cry the Beloved Country" by #AlanPaton, opens at Imperial Theater, NYC; runs for 39 performances.

"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."

✒️ #AlanPaton, South African author and anti-apartheid activist, #DOTD 12 April 1988. #Literature

Make Me an Instrument In an excerpt from Instrument of Thy Peace, Alan Paton writes about the Prayer of Saint Francis, and what it means to be God’s disciple in the world.

The Prayer of Saint Francis:

"Sometimes we cannot pray, because we are fallen into a melancholy, and therefore have for the time lost our hope and our faith, and have no one to pray to." #AlanPaton

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"The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again." #AlanPaton #PrayForAmerica

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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