Quotes by South African Authors - Page 17

Our humility before God has no value, except that it prepares us to reveal the humility of Jesus to our fellow men.
Andrew Murray
The highest glory of the creature is in being only a vessel, to receive and enjoy and show forth the glory of God. It can do this only as it is willing to be nothing in itself, that God may be all. Water always fills first the lowest places. The lower, the emptier a man lies before God, the speedier and the fuller will be the inflow of the diving glory.
Andrew Murray
Here is the path to the higher life: down, lower down! Just as water always seeks and fills the lowest place, so the moment God finds men abased and empty, His glory and power flow in to exalt and to bless.
Andrew Murray
There is a universal respect and even admiration for those who are humble and simple by nature, and who have absolute confidence in all human beings irrespective of their social status.
Nelson Mandela
Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.
Andrew Murray
Humility is nothing but the disappearance of self in the vision that God is all.
Andrew Murray
If you really want to hurt, find someone who loves you.
C.J. Langenhoven
I found that when it hurt, sometimes the most effective response was to feel the pain rather than wish it away or pretend it was not there.
Phindiwe Nkosi
You said you love me, how could words be so empty
Nomzamo Nhlumayo
Years pass by swiftly and the hope within me wanes and fades away like a branch cut off from a tree. Will I ever find you? Will my heart ever rest upon your chest and hear the sound of your heartbeat? Thankful to the Gods above that you exist after all and I have finally found you. Will the doubts within me be erased completely when my eyes gaze upon yours as I witness you in flesh? Will my hands ever feel your warmth and caress your skin? Will my mouth ever taste your lips and indulge on the juices that flow from it? Will my heart caper scamper triumphantly at the joy of finding you? As the doubts and fears within me are silenced to death? Will I meet you? I wonder.
Phindile Khumalo
A newspaper is an oversized book with adverts and an expiry date.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Sex is Not Love
Lizelle DuPlessis
The name of a great writer is usually bigger than the title of his book. Both literally and figuratively.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
This is not your standard “How to restore” your VW Beetle book. It’s also not a workshop manual. Aside from a basic rundown on the differences between various bug models through the years, there is a section on some things you can do to preserve your bug. Mostly however, what I’ve done is reviewed all the things I did to my bugsand put those ideas together as cheap, skillful, cheap, d.i.y, cheap means of enhancing your grocery getter’s performance and handling.
Christina Engela
A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.
J.M. Coetzee
Disclosing one's "deep, dark secrets" makes them no less deep or dark or secret than any other petty flaw.
Alan de Jager
If you cannot give God glory for something, you should not do it. If a person is not fully persuaded that an activity is pleasing to God, then it is a sin: "whatsoever is not of faith is sin" (Romans 14:23)
Alan de Jager
If all people were to be judged by 'right and wrong', nobody would be wholly right or wholly wrong - for have not all people 'sinned and fallen from the glory of God'? It seems more than a little unfair that some folks with at least as much 'sin' themselves as any gay or trans person, like to jump up and down and point fingers at other people.
Christina Engela
Our insight into the need of redemption will largely depend upon our knowledge of the terrible nature of the power that has entered our being.
Andrew Murray
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
Nelson Mandela
Good words alone does not make a person good, but good deeds makes a person great.
Gugu Mona
In a nice little house in Atro City there lived a man called Doktor Gleichstein. He was a kind of scientist, and he was very good at his job, which is why he always worked from home. He looked a little funny because he kept losing his eyebrows. Quantum Physics, is sort of like ordinary Physics, only you tend to spend a lot more time looking for the cat. He worked in the sitting room because he’d blown the garage up once already. Apparently a lot of things happened by accident in Quantum Physics.
Christina Engela
Better things will follow you when you do good things to others.
Gift Gugu Mona
Although it's good to have talent, character is so much important because bad character is an enemy of great talent.
Gift Gugu Mona
But it’s a hundred and twelve years old!” He protested.“She still works pretty good.” Deire maintained. “Stardrive gets a mite twitchy at warp 4, but that’s just a dodgy plasma injector.
Christina Engela
I’m no dynamic career woman. I don’t network or do lunch – I work because I have to. My job does not define me, but I try to do it well.
Tracy Engelbrecht
Even the simple act of tuning the radio to a music program can lift our spirits and show the world "I'm not going to give up.
Shirley Corder
If human beings were really progressive creatures, then all boys would be smarter, healthier, and, wealthier, than their grandfathers.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I have lived through an eventful year, yet understand no more of it than a babe in arms. Of all the people of this town I am the one least fitted to write a memorial. Better the blacksmith with his cries of rage and woe.
J.M. Coetzee
I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
Desmond Tutu
But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
Alan Paton
I am against justice … whenever it is carried out by a mob.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Heraclitus once said "we cannot exist without strife" but that does not mean we cannot co-exist without it.
Anike Kirsten
The reason is that as far as I am concerned, what happened to me is a purely private matter. In another time, in another place it might be held to be a public matter. But in this place, in this time, it is not. It is my bussines, mine alone.'This place being what?''This place being South Africa
J.M. Coetzee
There is one key area in which Zuma has made no attempt at reconciliation whatsoever: criminal justice and security. The ministers of justice, defence, intelligence (now called 'state security' in a throwback to both apartheid and the ANC's old Stalinist past), police and communications are all die-hard Zuma loyalists. Whatever their line functions, they will also play the role they have played so ably to date: keeping Zuma out of court—and making sure the state serves Zuma as it once did Mbeki.
Mark Gevisser
In a society where women are truly equal to men, a kid bred by a theist mother and an atheist father is born an agnostic. In a patriarchal society, the kid is automatically an atheist.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
If heaven really exists: then, technically, living is an activity that believers keep themselves busy with — while they wait for their death.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Religion is a non-alcoholic man's alcohol. Alcohol is a non-religious man's religion.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I'm an atheist. I wouldn't even call myself an agnostic. I am an atheist.
Nadine Gordimer
Intellect is the virtue of ignoring one’s emotions’ attempt to contaminate one’s opinions.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Photographers are artists, they capture and bring emotion in the motions of life.
Unarine Ramaru
It’s like I’m on a roller-coaster ride, but I’m not allowed to get off. I’m strapped to the seat, and within eyesight the unfinished twirl of the track swirls into the air.
Danielle Esplin
That's the most pathetic part of being a human, the emotions you don't ask for or want, they just rush you anyway.
Tarryn Fisher
Ciss says, 'People have less emotions than actors think they have. For much of the time we hide our emotions, we haven't time for emotions. Our brains work so much faster than our emotions.
Antony Sher
I do not think men are good at all. I have seen enough to know that humans are a wicked race from their very birth. Selfishness defines us. Greed and lust motivate us. And even the best man who ever lived would lie to preserve his own life or beliefs. No, mankind is far from being essentially good. It takes exceptional individuals to change the world, to make a difference. Give the average person a choice, and he will make life miserable for others if only it will make his own life easier.
Brondt Kamffer
And so it is, that if you believe it you can honestly choose what you want to be. But choose carefully, with your intuition, and have the courage to trust your choice! It is vital that we allow our self the privilege of quite space, for it is there we discover the passion that drives us to our heart's desire, to our destiny.
Braam Malherbe
The only pressure I agree to, is my conscious and not peer pressure.
Unarine Ramaru
We came to life to leave a mark, either a wrong or right! So what route is your lifestyle taking?
Unarine Ramaru
You shouldn't have to convince anyone to choose you. There is no real choice in love.
Tarryn Fisher
Liberals want all people to have choices open to them - which does not mean that everyone HAS to choose things they don't want to or don't agree with. Quite frankly, I don't see why any sane human being would have a problem with that?
Christina Engela
The reason we have choices in life, is so we don't blame anyone for the consequences of our decisions.
Gift Gugu Mona
Everyday you have a new chapter to write about your journey of life. As you write that chapter do it so well such that if others read it, you would still be proud of yourself.
Gugu Mona
They do say that socialism is the ideal philosophy-just as long as you have capitalists to pay for it.
Wilbur Smith
Because of the power that we have given money: The government would rather have taxpayers who do not vote, than voters who do not pay tax.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I note the lengths to which Christianist groups are prepared to go to, to influence government and to network hate-churches in order to get their way and to rob people of their human rights, and it gives me cold chills.
Christina Engela
An advanced human rights friendly Constitution is fine and well - but what good is it if it is not put into practice? The government says it cherishes the principles in the SA Constitution, and yet acts in a manner which cannot be reconciled with that very Constitution.
Christina Engela
Who is an elected government in a constitutional democracy to decide it will not tolerate dissent
Christina Engela
Who is an elected government in a constitutional democracy to decide it will not tolerate dissent.
Christina Engela
Democracy is government by the people, for the people. Without the responsibility of the people, and without the involvement of the people - all you have left is GOVERNMENT.
Christina Engela
It's not in the interests of the self-serving government to educate the masses to the point where they are smart enough to see through the bullshit - because then people will be too smart to vote for them again.
Christina Engela