Quotes About Reconciliation

There's nobody, possibly, who could have hated 'Octomom' more than I.

I was the generation who hated the white man, despised him, wanted to shoot him.

The day of parts of the country hating each other, or rivalries like that... I feel like that's dead.

Through my experiences, I was living with anger and hatred, which was a really bad thing for me. Then I learned how to forgive, and it freed me from hatred and helped me a lot.

I don't feel hatred for Zuniga.

Unless you come to terms with your past... it haunts you, and you never leave it.

Our concern is to heal. Our concern is to bring together.

We need to heal this country.

It takes bold direction and leadership to heal a divided nation.

I've worked really hard to hurt people in my life so I admire people who heal people.

There is no forgiveness, justice, or healing on any level when hate is involved.

Violence begets violence, and hate begets hate. Both hate and violence beget a society that harms, and makes impossible the healing necessary for us to reach our full potential.

I find forgiveness to be really healthy.

Brothers argue in the heat of the moment, and then they make up.

I took what I was given in Christianity and put it into my secular, hedonistic life.

If I spent the rest of my life getting even with the people that had helped me out, I would never settle the score.

Like Humpty Dumpty, in the old nursery rhyme, putting the country back together again would not be easy. This feeling of separation and alienation was not a passing thought but lived into the next century.

It may be an infinitely less evil to murder a man than to refuse to forgive him. The former may be the act of a moment of passion: the latter is the heart's choice.

Those are not the tears of repentance!... Self-loathing is not sorrow. Yet it is good, for it marks a step in the way home, and in the father's arms the prodigal forgets the self he abominates.

There is no way of making three men right but by making right each one of the three; but a cure in one man who repents and turns, is a beginning of the cure of the whole human race.

So there was but one way of setting matters right, as Mr Malison had generosity enough left in him to perceive; and that was, to make a friend of his adversary. Indeed there is that in the depths of every human breast which makes a reconciliation the only victory that can give true satisfaction.

Spiritual Murder It may be an infinitely less evil to murder a man than to refuse to forgive him. The former may be the act of a moment of passion: the latter is the heart's choice. It is spiritual murder, the worst, to hate, to brood over the feeling that excludes, that, in our microcosm, kills the image, the idea of the hated.

he was more grateful for Truffey's generous forgiveness than he would have been for the richest living in Scotland. Such forgiveness is just giving us back ourselves—clean and happy. And for what gift can we be more grateful?

When I am out of sight, he may think of me again and want to see me—as Job said his maker would. I don't remember, said Barbara. Tell me. He says to God—I was reading it the other day—'I wish you would hide me in the grave till you've done being angry with me! Then you would want to see again the creature you had made; you would call me, and I would answer!' God's not like that, of course, but my father might be.