Quotes About Reconciliation

Revelation is purposive. Its end is not simply divine self-display, but the overcoming of human opposition, alienation and pride, and their replacement by knowledge, love and fear of God. In short: revelation is reconciliation.

A PERSON WHO CANNOT FORGIVE HAS FORGOTTEN HOW GREAT A DEBT GOD HAS FORGIVEN THEM.

Love forgets wrongs so that there is hope for the future.

But still there are moments when a brother and sister can lay down their instruments of torture for a moment and speak as civilized human beings and Bruno decided to make this one of those moments.

When He orders you to forgive that man for whatever sin he has committed against you, He calls you to do so not because that man deserves it, but because God Himself has forgiven you (Luke 17:3–4).

the faith of   the gospel is called the knowledge of God's grace; for no one has ever   tasted of the gospel but the man that knew himself to be reconciled to   God, and took hold of the salvation that is held forth in Christ.   

And it was our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the true and only eternal Son of God, who had to be sent and given to mankind by the Father, to restore a world otherwise wasted, destroyed, and desolate.

Supposing a man not only deserves nothing good from you, but he has also provoked you with injustices and injuries—even this is not just cause for you to stop embracing him with affection and fulfilling your duties of love to him. He

when we recognize God as a propitious Father through the reconciliation made by Christ, and Christ as given to us for righteousness, sanctification, and life. By this knowledge, I say, not by the submission of our understanding, we obtain an entrance into the kingdom of heaven.

Most important of all, Mandela stated that the way to a negotiated solution lay in a simple-sounding formula: reconciling white fears with black aspirations.

Having won over his own people—in itself no mean feat, for they were a disparate bunch, drawn from all manner of creeds, colors, and tribes—he then went out and won over the enemy.

Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.

God, without ever ceasing to be God, actually became what he created in order to reconcile us to himself.

Why are you so worried about him, after all that he's done to you?

How do you explain to someone who thinks you're the devil incarnate, that you're really not?

Jesus stepped into our blindness. He moved fully into our darkened state of mind and turned the lights back on. Not turning His Father toward us, but turning us back to His eager loving face that had always been set like flint to redeem us. "All this is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ …" (2 Cor. 5:18).

But if the good news is that the world has been reconciled to God by the cross, the bad news is the world seems not to have noticed.

She hugg'd the offender, and forgave the offense:Sex to the last.

Forgiveness to the injured does belong but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

Sin is the handle by which I get Christ,...

Be ready for reconciliation after quarrels.

It is never, never too late, in a story or in real life, to correct.

We spend the second half of our life making up for the first half.