Quotes About Reparation

In fact, the bargain had been Carnegie's belated attempt to redress his own error.

And we pray in reparation, to make up for all those who won't or can't pray for themselves – especially anyone in grave sin. That's why communities say the longest and most arduous Office at night – the time when most sin is committed in the world.' 'You mean a little Carmelite might sit up and pray for a murderer?' 'She has, with results,' said Philippa.

you compensate for your mistakes in so gentlemanly a way, that one almost feels obliged to you for having committed them.

If a man had tortured and killed your father, your mother, your sweetheart, in short, one of those beings who leave an eternal emptiness and a perpetually bleeding wound when they are torn from your heart, do you think society has given you sufficient reparation because the blade of the guillotine has passed between the murderer's trapezius and his occipital bone, because the man who made you undergo long years of mental and emotional suffering has undergone a few seconds of physical pain?

in damages to the families of the American victims. Yet

Just saying sorry cannot compensate whom you hurt, damage, or insult with your words or actions, whether intentionally or unintentionally.

Nature is the manifestation of the divine laws, and there are no miracles in Nature. If you have eaten wrong for 30, 40, 50 years, thereby producing your disease, you must do the necessary compensation as reparation for your sins, you must do the opposite by eating clean, natural, divine food, which will produce health instead of disease. That is as clear as sunlight, and as logical as 2 x 2 = 4.

One reason for a long life is penance. Time is given us not just to accumulate that which we cannot take with us, but to make reparation for our sins.

A Christian people who have for two hundred years kept a race in bondage, deprived of the advantages of civilization and religion, owe them a debt of gratitude which it would seem ungenerous to withhold.

The German debt to the Jewish people can never end, not in this generation and not in any other.

There are, after all, between seventy-five thousand and a hundred thousand descendants of the Ball-family slaves. If I were to begin apologizing to every one of these families, it would quickly become a meaningless act.

White people seem to think the black man ought to be shouting 'hallelujah'! Four hundred years the white man has had his foot-long knife in the black man's back—and now the white man starts to wiggle the knife out, maybe six inches! The black man's supposed to be grateful? Why, if the white man jerked the knife out, it's still going to leave a scar!

Indeed, how can white society atone for enslaving, for raping, for unmanning, for otherwise brutalizing millions of human beings, for centuries? What atonement would the God of Justice demand for the robbery of the black people's labor, their lives, their true identities, their culture, their history--and even their human dignity?

To repair the irreparable ravages of time.

You killed them, Reuben. You killed them in their sins! You terminated their destiny on this earth. You snatched from them any chance for repentance, for redemption. You took that from them. You took it all, Reuben. You snuffed out forever the years of reparation they might have lived! You took life itself from them and you took it from their descendants, and yes, even from their victims, you took what their amends might have been.

We literally paid for our own oppression.

Indeed, the best form of atonement by the British might be, as Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has suggested, to start teaching unromanticized colonial history in British schools.

Sorry. I seem to have caused a mess our last time around.

[Answering the question 'If you had caused the end of the world, what would you do?'] I would try to fix it. I would go to bed on time and brush my teeth.

Eternal damnation is the lot of mankind; neither tears, nor reparation, can undo Man's heritage of sin.

The whole of what we know is a system of compensations. Each suffering is rewarded each sacrifice is made up every debt is paid.

'Rectify' is really good.

The round of a passionate man?s life is in contracting debts in his passion which his virtue obliges him to pay. He spends his time in outrage and acknowledgment, injury and reparation.

Those who claim to be hurt by words must be led to expect nothing as compensation. Otherwise, once they learn they can get something by claiming to be hurt, they will go into the business of being offended.