Quotes About Reconciliation

I find many drawbacks of myself. But, each time when I visit Lourdes, I receive a lesson of reconciliation. When you see ill people or invalids around, you realize that it is a sin to complain!

the first time you are reconciled to the terrible unfairness of disappointment, you are getting old.

The second time I went to jail, I was like, 'okay, this is not the move.'

Having loved the Stones all the time I was growing up, I wasn't about to see them go and split up. It got very close to it in the 80s, when Mick thought that Keith hated him and vice versa.

Forgetting is something that time takes care of, but forgiveness is an act of volition, and only the sufferer is qualified to make the decision.

The time for the healing of the wounds has come. The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come. The time to build is upon us.

We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

I believe that we can heal Rwanda - and our world - by healing one heart at a time.

You do not know just what you've been forgiven.

No matter what the police and the district attorney said, no matter what the papers wrote, no matter what people believed then and still believe, these years later, the truth is that I did not kill my mother. I only wished I had.

I was not really angry: I felt for him all the time, and longed to be reconciled; but I determined he should make the first advances, or at least show some signs of an humble and contrite spirit, first; for, if I began, it would only minister to his self-conceit, increase his arrogance, and quite destroy the lesson I wanted to give him.

Its easily done, replied he, with a faint smile, bordering on a sneer: to abuse your friend and knock him on the head, without any assignable cause, and then tell him the deed was not quite correct, but it's no matter whether he pardons it or not.

Her husband, however, upon this second misdemeanour, immediately sought and obtained a divorce, and, not long after, married again.

You only really get to know a person after a fight. Only then can you judge their true characters!

Ajungi s? cuno?ti bine oamenii abia dup? ce te-ai certat cu ei o dat?. Abia atunci po?i s? le judeci caracterul!

One day this terrible war will be over. The time will come when we'll be people again and not just Jews!

Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back. You're done. It doesn't necessarily mean that you want to have lunch with the person. If you keep hitting back, you stay trapped in the nightmare...

Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back.

Who was it who said that forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a different past?

Without using the word, everyone started forgiving each other again. Just like that, from the no of all nothingness: you have a big tense mess and out of it comes some joy. It must be magic.

Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant for you to hit back. You're done. It doesn't necessarily mean you want to vacation together.

Forgiving people doesn't necessarily mean you want to meet them for lunch. It means you try to undo the Velcro hook. Lewis Smedes said it best: "To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.