Cry The Beloved Country-Favourite Quotes

"Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that's 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 if he gives too much."

"This world is full of trouble, umfundisi."
"Who knows it better?"
"Yet you believe?"

Kumalo looked at him under the light of the lamp. "I believe, he said, but I have learned that it is a secret. 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. There is my wife, and you, my friend, and these people who welcomed me, and the child who is so eager to be with us here in Ndotsheni – so in my suffering I can believe."

"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."

Kumalo looked at his friend with joy. You are a preacher, he said.

"For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing."

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