Quotes About Reconciliation

sixth chapter of Luke: "Forgive, and ye shall be forgiven.

Even as a child, even as my blood-past was drained from me, I understood that if I were strong enough to accept it, I was being offered a second history.

It is the spirit which heals the transgressor, and that is in essence what matters.

but can it forgive everything? Should it? Which

that not what love is—an enlargement of the best and a healing over of the worst?

How do you forgive someone for not being what you wanted them to be, or what you thought they were? Especially when they are not sorry—perhaps they don't even understand?" "Or again, perhaps they do?" Hester suggested. "And how do they forgive us for having expected too much of them, instead of looking to see what they really were, and loving that?

How dreadful that must have been for Aaron, picking up the trash of my life, with no word of apology from me.

You forgot Oxalá, but he never forgot you.

I want you, the great breaker of rules, to forgive that I have broken yours.

Love we need, and love can make us forget and forgive the savagery, as perhaps nothing else can.

Maharet put her arm around Mekare's waist, and Mekare, come from brutal isolation I know not where, merely stared into space as though she knew some quiet peace but no more than that.

People may say . . . that all is made up and well again, but such breaches between great people are seldom or never so.

He wanted to say, Muriel, forgive me, but since my son died, sex has... turned. (As milk turns; that was how he thought of it. As milk will alter its basic nature and turn sour.) I really don't think of it anymore. I honestly don't. I can't imagine anymore what all that fuss was about. Now it seems pathetic.

apart," Abby said. "Yes, except he could put it back

It is difficult to undo our own damage, and to recall to our presence that which we have asked to leave.

Once, a great handful of a girl out west told him - I never did love you. […]How mean of her to salve her spit curled conscience by trying to take away their past! In the kitchen he had started to use those very words on Lou - they sprang readily to mind, as wounding words do - but he stopped himself.

The motivation of love motivates us to give our lives for others. In sum, Rutilio Grande embodied all three of these, and "died loving others," pardoning his enemies. "Who knows if the murderers that have now fallen into excommunication are listening to a radio in their hideout, listening, in their conscience to this word. We want to tell you, murderous brothers, that we love you and that we ask of God repentance for your hearts, because the church is not able to hate.

Oh, shut the fuck up, Sean snapped. I love you, man, OK? I missed you. Is that so hard to take? Does that scare you so damn bad? Kev looked away. No, he said quietly. It doesn't scare me. I missed you, too. All of you. It was a really long eighteen year. Bruno looked at all four men in turn. Seconds passed. Nothing. His disbelief grew. That was it? That was all? Oh, for the love of Christ. These guys were emotional retards, every last one of them.

My granny Torrelli says when you are angry with someone, so angry you are thinking hateful things, so angry maybe you want to punch them, then you should think of the good things about them, and the nice things they've said, and why you liked them in the first place.

What is forgiveness worth without trust?

The last time Ranulf had run into Sulien, the older man had called him a misbegotten English Judas and spat onto the ground at his feet. Yet now that same man was approaching the bed with a jovial smile, so apparently pleased to see the Judas again that Ranulf half-expected him to announce that a fatted calf had been killed in his honor.

We cannot simply forgive and forget, nor should we.

Ultimately, we forgive others in order to free ourselves.

Telling the story, acknowledging what has happened and how you feel, is often a necessary part of forgiveness.