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Quotes About Forgiveness

I thought Mr. Cunningham was a friend of ours. You told me a long time ago he was." "He still is." "But last night he wanted to hurt you." Atticus placed his fork beside his knife and pushed his plate aside. "Mr. Cunningham's basically a good man," he said, "he just has his blind spots along with the rest of us." Jem
~ Harper Lee
Jesus Christ never went around grumbling and complaining
~ Harper Lee
That boy's yo' comp'ny and if he wants to eat up the table cloth you let him, you hear?
~ Harper Lee
Let the dead bury the dead this time, Mr. Finch. Let the dead bury the dead.
~ Harper Lee
cuando más te necesitan tus amigos es cuando se equivocan, Jean Louise, no cuando tienen razón.
~ Harper Lee
I need a watchman to go forth and proclaim to them all that twenty-six years is too long to play a joke on anybody, no matter how funny it is.
~ Harper Lee
I do my best to love everybody... I'm hard put, sometimes - baby, it's never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn't hurt you. So don't let Mrs. Dubose get you down. She has enough troubles of her own.
~ Harper Lee
Atticus said that Jem was trying hard to forget something, but what he was really doing was storing it away for a while, until enough time passed. Then he would be able to think about it and sort things out.
~ Harper Lee
There's one thing I truly believe, Gertrude," she continued, "but some people just don't see it my way. If we just let them know we forgive 'em, that we've forgotten it, then this whole thing'll blow over.
~ Harper Lee
Jem, she's old and ill. You can't hold her responsible for what she says and does. Of course, I'd rather she'd have said it to me than to either of you, but we can't always have our 'druthers.
~ Harper Lee
She saw her old enemy's shoulders relax, and she watched him push his hat to the back of his head. "Let's go home, Scout. It's been a long day. Open the door for me." She stepped aside to let him pass. She followed him to the car and watched him get laboriously into the front seat. As she welcomed him silently to the human race, the stab of discovery made her tremble a little.
~ Harper Lee
There was no point to say you were sorry if you weren't.
~ Harper Lee
There goes the meanest man ever God blew breath into," murmured Calpurnia, and she spat meditatively into the yard.
~ Harper Lee
But it's okay to hate Hitler?" "It is not," he said. "It's not okay to hate anybody.
~ Harper Lee
Bu böyle deÄŸildi, yemin ederim deÄŸildi. İnsanlar bir nedenle birbirlerine güvenirdi; nedenini unuttum...
~ Harper Lee
pero se que perseguiréis a los pájaros. Mata a todos los arrendajos azules que queréis, si podéis darles, pero recordad que matar a un ruiseñor es pecado.
~ Harper Lee
Let the dead bury the dead...
~ Harper Lee
Jem, she's old and ill. You can't hold her responsible for what she says and does.
~ Harper Lee
She rubbed salt into it: I'm thoughtless, all right. Selfish, self-willed, I eat too much, and I feel like the Book of Common Prayer. Lord forgive me for not doing what I should have done and for doing what I shouldn't have done—oh hell.
~ Harper Lee
Atticus says that you can't punish the children for the father's faults.
~ Harper Lee
Amazing grace how sweet thuh sound That saved a wretch like me; I once was lost but now I'm found, Was blind, but now I see. A-men.
~ Harper Lee
Deje que los muertos entierren a los muertos. (Heck Tate)
~ Harper Lee
draugams tav?s reikia, kai jie klysta, o ne tada, kai b?na teis?s...
~ Harper Lee
Let the dead bury the dead, this time.
~ Harper Lee