Cry, the Beloved Country

Ok I wasn't excited to read this for my first OR bookclub, but it has some beautiful language in it...

...But there is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.  Because when a man loves he seks no power, and therefore he has power.  I see only one hope for our country, and that is when white men and black men, desiring neither power nor money, bu desiring only the good of their country, come together to work for it.  p71

Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear.  Let him not love the earth too deeply.  Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire.  Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing, nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley  For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much. p111

...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.  p261