Quotes About Reconciliation

And there has been no attempt at a reconciliation?" Phineas asked. "She went abroad to escape his attempts, and remains there in order that she may be safe. Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife's hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.

Anti-Catholicism in England was certainly not eliminated in 1829, just as permanent peace was certainly not achieved in Ireland.

By helping to heal my own heart, you mean?" Avi asked. "Yes." "You're right," he agreed. "Even if the letter didn't reach Hamish, it reached me. That's true. It was for me an outward expression of an inward recovery of friendship. Hamish may not have received it, but in writing it I finally received him and began to receive others like him.

absuelve y no cuando condena

How can I stand here forgiven and free of all my past mistakes, and not forgive you?

You'll get more from being a peacemaker than a warrior

Dus zo vergeet je: knielend in de schuur, likkend als een hond, je handen op de billen van een klasgenootje van je jongste dochter. En is vergeten niet genezen? Is hij nu niet eindelijk aan het genezen? Is het niet zijn beurt?

It still believed in everything that the Master had taught it; though it had seen him fake his miracles and tell lies to his followers, these inconvenient facts did not affect its loyalty. It was able, like many humans before it, to reconcile two conflicting sets of data.

There's a lot to be said for forgiveness. Grudges seldom hurt anyone except the one bearing them. ~Atlantean God and 1st Dark-Hunter Acheron Parthenopaeus~

No matter what happens…promise me you won't hate me. (Carlos)

That alas is the way it goes; Something we must rectify. Paul, not Caro, would interpret the degree of meaning in their respective lots. That had been decided, as he sat speaking intimately of his life to the person most excluded from it - in order to readmit her to the intimacy, though not the life.

Constance stirred, and the leaves rustled. The way you did before? she asked. It had never been spoken of between us, not once in six years. Yes, I said after a minute, the way I did before.

As your pierced hands were stretched out on the cross, O precious Lord of Heaven. No matter how far a soul might stray from the path of righteousness, the pierced hands were stretched out, yearning. Only one thing was needed: that the sinful soul should turn toward the open embrace, freely, like a child who goes to his father and not like a thrall who is chased home to his stern master.

for the designated successor to royal authority, the Sovereign People, was no more capable than Louis XVI of reconciling freedom with power.

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

La reconciliación sólo es posible sobre la base del conocimiento de la realidad

Justicia, no venganza

how humankind will ever be able to answer to God for the wounds inflicted on His world.

maintenant je n'ai plus de regrets,parce que les choses qui n'existent pas pour moi,il me semble qu'elles n'existent absolument pas.

As we talked in the half-darkness I assuaged an old unhappiness.

I]'m reliving it street by street, hour by hour, with the mission of neutralizing it, and transforming it into an inoffensive past that i can keep in my heart without either disowning it or suffering from it. That's not easy. It's at once painful and poetic.

It is to the prodigals...that the memory of their Father's house comes back. If the son had lived economically he would never have thought of returning.

If the benefits of Christ's work (justification, reconciliation, adoption, and so on) are abstracted from Christ himself, and the proclamation of the gospel is made in terms of what it offers rather than in terms of Christ himself, the question naturally arises: To whom can I offer these benefits?

The trouble is, I'm sorry doesn't power anything. It drags you down.