“As sure as time, history is repeating itself, and as sure as man is man, history is the last place he’ll look for his lessons.”
― Go Set a Watchman
― Go Set a Watchman
“She went to him. “Atticus,” she said. “I’m—” “You may be sorry, but I’m proud of you.” She looked up and saw her father beaming at her. “What?” “I said I’m proud of you.” “I don’t understand you. I don’t understand men at all and I never will.” “Well, I certainly hoped a daughter of mine’d hold her ground for what she thinks is right—stand up to me first of all.”
― Go Set a Watchman
― Go Set a Watchman
“But a man who has lived by truth—and you have believed in what he has lived—he does not leave you merely wary when he fails you, he leaves you with nothing.”
― Go Set a Watchman
― Go Set a Watchman
“Blind, that’s what I am. I never opened my eyes. I never thought to look into people’s hearts, I looked only in their faces.”
― Go Set a Watchman
― Go Set a Watchman
“Jesus talked to His friends a lot about how we should identify ourselves. He said it wouldn’t be what we said we believed or all the good we hoped to do someday. Nope, He said we would identify ourselves simply by how we loved people. It’s tempting to think there is more to it, but there’s not. Love isn’t something we fall into; love is some
one we become.”
― Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People
one we become.”
― Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People
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