If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.

Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.

If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.

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.

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.

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.

Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.