When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for? I couldn’t face that question. - Alan Paton
There is a hard law. When an injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive. - Alan Paton
For således elskede Gud verden, at han gav sin enbårne søn, for at enhver som strækker ud hos ham, ikke skal fortabes, men have evigt liv (John G. Paton's oversættelse) - Max Lucado
To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man. - Alan Paton
Fear is a journey, a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arriving. - Alan Paton
When a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive. - 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