Quotes About Reconciliation

Loving confrontation can free both the oppressed from docility and the oppressor from sin.

Friendship is delicate as a glass, once broken it can be fixed but there will always be cracks

There's no winning arguments with your parents

I take literally the statement in the Gospel of John that God loves the world. I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar as it is redeemable, it can be redeemed only by love. I believe that divine love, incarnate and indwelling in the world, summons the world always toward wholeness, which ultimately is reconciliation and atonement with God.

betrayal—it is only as you give up your rights to vindicate yourself, it is only in laying down the injustices, it is only in forgiving those who have wronged you—that you lay down your life. And as you lay down

In spite of everything she did that she shouldn't have done, and everything she didn't do that she should have, something that felt like love was in her and she would take it out at times like this and show it to us and make us hunger for more. All of us, each in our own way.

I am the enemy you killed, my friend.

?nsan?n ihanete katlanabilmesi için, ihanet edenin kendisi olmas? gerek. Oysa ihanetin kurban?ysan, ihanet edene geri dönmek mümkün de?ildir.

Computer files are a bit like sin, Excellency. They can be absolved, but they never really go away. - Gabriel Allon

On Yom Kippur, it is not enough for one to feel sorry for the foul deeds one has done. To achieve forgiveness, one must go to the injured parties and make amends.

I suppose I needed to share it with her. I suppose I needed someone to forgive me.

It had been a long time, perhaps years, since she had heard a man apologize

Even when we feel we should be disqualified from all that Christ offers, grace beckons us back.

Are you in conflict with someone? Maybe you feel you've done everything you can to make things right. But is there anything else you can do? It would please God so much.

Lord my God, if I have done this and there is guilt on my hands—if I have repaid my ally with evil or without cause have robbed my foe—then let my enemy pursue and overtake me, let him trample my life to the ground and make me sleep in the dust. Psalm 7:3–5, NIV

When you find yourself in a position where you could easily point an accusing finger—or have an accusing finger pointed at you—think, trust, and forgive.

The heart of the Father is always to put us back on track, a little wiser, and ever grateful for another chance. When

Will we be perfect at it? Of course not. Disputes arise. That's part of being human. But that's what offering and seeking forgiveness are for: restoring the love that God wants between our family and us. Is there someone you need to seek forgiveness from or offer forgiveness to today?

I think I wanted to write a book about the relationship between the victim and perpetrator in which the victim agrees to remain silent.

One thing about pessimism is that it feels sane. Pessimists are those who can't be taken in, people who can't be fooled. I told you so. But it is also a habit of mind. It reconciles us to being powerless. It justifies detachment, indifference. It is even fear of having power....

To forgive, you have to forget," he counseled. "Because otherwise you haven't truly forgiven.

Restorative justice is more interested in relationships. A crime is not act against a rule, it's an act against a person. When you harm somebody, you owe it to them to make things right. By making things right, you begin to heal your relationship with the community. Our system is focused on blame and punishment and not on healing and learning. - Lauren Abramson (RJ Program in Baltimore, MD)

RJ advocates say, is not an act against a rule, it's an act against a person. When you harm somebody, you owe it to them to make things right. By making things right, you begin to heal your relationship with the community.

Restorative Justice} allowed you two hold two things in your head at the same time...that's what community was, all those layers of understanding.