Quotes About Reconciliation

What happened has hurt us. Now you have to work this out.

With malice toward none; with charity for all.

This is the courageous thing to do: to try to reach the other side before it's too late.

In her own mind she was adding that forgiveness did not necessarily mean that forgetting went with it.

Wonder what?" "If one of them will ever say, Gee, those damn Indians might have had an idea or two. Shouldn't have got rid of them all. Maybe we missed out." Louis laughed. Thomas laughed. They laughed together at the idea.

You can't get over things you did to other people as easily as the things they did to you.

Everyone always said forgiveness is not forgetting, that the act is as full of grace for the forgiver as the forgiven. This would not hurt her. She gazed at the old man across from her. She knew that she would never see him again, and she also knew she could never absolve him.

How jolly it was not to hate anybody anymore. Life and she were friends again.

Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic

Forgiveness is mandatory; reconciliation is optional.

eu não odeio nada nem ninguém - perdono a tutti, como na ópera.

It does not matter; the reconciliation of a family is itself an enigmatic gesture.

But his love is greater than all our hate and he will not rest until Judas has turned to him, until Satan has turned to him, until dark has turned to him; until we can all, all of us without exception, freely return his look of love with love in our own eyes and hearts. And then, healed, whole, complete but not finished, we swill know the joy of being co-creators with the one to whom we call. Amen. Even so, come Lord Jesus.

Papa's always had the ability to remember the good things and let the bad ones go. Not a bad ability. ... I'm not sure. I think we have to remember it all before we can forgive it.

Mercy. It didn't mean that everything was okay, could or should be condoned. But we can't move out of ourselves and our own self-justifications until we look in the mirror and know, yes, I, too, could have done this. Or worse. My anger at my mother. At Mama for telling me things I don't want to know.

Where there is an unreconciled quarrel, everybody suffers

To heal would be to open the wound,examine it and forgive

The whole Mennonite philosophy is that we forgive and we move on." To the Mennonites, forgiveness is a religious imperative: Forgive those who trespass against you. But

There is no greater success as when you turn your enemy into your ally.

There is no reconciliation until you recognize the dignity of the other, until you see their view- you have to enter into the pain of the people. You've got to feel their need.

Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.

Healing begins with your saying these simple words to your adversary, yes, to your enemy: You're hurting, I know. I'm hurting, too. Let's try to find a way.

I had always assumed we had an unspoken understanding about these things: that she didn't really mean I was a failure, and I really meant I would try to respect her opinions more.

Precious Auntie, what is our name? I always meant to claim it as my own. Come help me remember. I'm not a little girl anymore. I'm not afraid of ghosts. Are you still mad at me? Don't you recognize me? I am LuLing, your daughter.