Quotes About Reconciliation

As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.

I had very little time to mentally prepare before I was just kind of thrust into it. And I'm watching all of these movie stars that I idolized sharing the stage with me. And then I'm having dinner with Angelina Jolie because that's how the seating chart worked over at Marvel - and then trying to reconcile all of this in my brain.

My father took my mother, me, and my brother from Sicily to New York. He got us one-way tickets but booked himself a return flight. He dumped us with my mother's parents, who had just arrived from Italy, and abandoned us. That was 1986. I didn't see or speak to him for another 12 years. That's cruel.

After every war someone has to tidy up.

I have to make things right with Tiger first before anything else.

Meg reached out to Erik before he could turn away. "Are you...?" He didn't let her finish. Instead he reached inside the carriage and placed his hand tenderly behind her neck drawing her to his face. He placed hi lips softly, yet passionately on her. Hardly had he withdrawn from hers then he whispered, "Forgive me, Meg. Forgive me for wanting...?" "Ssshhh. You're here. I'm here." She raised her handkerchief and wiped the lone tear that had escaped his mask.

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Only by acceptance of the past will you alter its meaning.

One day I will forgive you; until then there are scabs everywhere that you have touched me.

I don't deserve this. I have forgiven myself. What I did to you was not so bad. It happens.

The historical relationship between Christians and Jews for most of the two thousand years of Christianity has not been good and it's been mostly persecution by Christians of Jews -- not all the time, not every place, but mostly it's been that. I think that's just a terribly regretful thing. I don't see it anywhere in the Scriptures that I read, that Christians are to persecute Jews. I think it's been quite damaging. I think it's been a bad witness.

I feel like I've never had a home, you know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and yet I don't know exactly where I fit in... There's always this kind of nostalgia for a place, a place where you can reckon with yourself.

these entries we can see Smith focusing on the human landscape and the tension he felt between isolation and the teeming churn of collectives, a tension he never reconciled, and many themes of home—creating or finding a home, leaving and returning home.

We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

Distance either of time or place is sufficient to reconcile weak minds to wonderful relations.

Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.

The cross of Christ on which he was extended, points, in the length of it, to heaven and earth, reconciling them together; and in the breadth of it, to former and following ages, as being equally salvation to both.

Pray for your adversaries; remember how many thousands of talents of sins your Master hath forgiven you. Forgive you, therefore, your fellow-servant's one talent.

The man hath penance done,And penance more will do.

It was as if they had never been apart.

If you tolerate the injustice done to you and pardon the perpetrator, the hatred will be transformed into affinity and love.

Saturn Return is where you reconcile the parts of your life that you've chosen with the parts where you've let yourself get carried away.

Sutton, I have to talk to you," Mr. Mercer said... "I'm sorry," she said preemptively. "You don't even know what I'm going to say yet.