Charlotte Bronte Quotes

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behooves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.

I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.

You can't judge a character, and you're never going to always play characters that are morally sound or know right from wrong.

I try to show ugliness, but with compassion for the people who commit ugly acts.

If you can write someone off as a bad person, then it's easier, but when someone is also great and noble and generous and kind and funny and contradictory, it gets harder.

It's up to God to do the judging. You haven't walked in my boots, so how are you going to judge me?

We have to stop thinking of criminals as 'them' and admit to ourselves, 'There but for the grace of God go I.'

None of us wants to be judged by our worst act on our worst day, and we consistently judge Burr for that. He was not a perfect man, but he's not a villain. He's a dude, just a guy.

I always have said, you know it's not for me to forgive or to condemn, I'm a filmmaker.

It is difficult to live with the pure. They do not condemn you; they forgive you. This forgiveness is more terrible than a judgment.

There is a saying in India that the person who should throw a stone first is the person who has not committed any sins. In the world right now, a lot of people want to give advice. But look within them, and they too have sinned in some way. Ultimately, India's view point is that efforts need to be made to sit together and talk, and to resolve problems in an ongoing process.

However wretched her origins, she chose freely to continue her crimes against us from the moment she woke to this life. It is easy to forgive beautiful women, especially when they lay a sorrowful tale before you like a sugar-dusted meal. It does not mean they deserve forgiveness.

people are more than the worst thing they have ever done in their lives

It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured.

When I repent, here is where it starts. I try to name my sin as honestly and as specifically as possible. Here is what repenting is not. It is not excusing my sin, minimizing my sin, it's not rationalizing my sin ... Repentance is getting painfully honest with God.

Revenge may not be a particularly high consciousness-oriented activity.

Who would I least want to hang out with? Probably John Lotter. I guess I have a place of understanding for everyone I've played.

Forgiving yourself, not guilt, increases personal accountability.

If you never condemned you would never need to forgive.

What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven.

I pray thee, sir, forgive me for the mess/And whether I shot first, I'll not confess. - Han Solo

How can you qualify the difference between a sin and a lie.

I've become more forgiving, even though I have no patience at all for denial, justification of wrong, rationalization. I've become virtually a pacifist, so I feel that no atrocity is ever justified. I've become more vigilant about evil. I think I recognize its seeds more quickly. I see its source.

When there’s only God to blame, we forgive him. When it’s our fellow man, we destroy him.

Pardon others often, thyself never.