Quotes About Reconciliation

Shame has a way of cutting one off from everyone one knows. Especially those who might forgive.

touching on the points of two lives that had once intersected, and were now reunited.

Whenever people are separated by racism, the church is to work to manifest the one new humanity Jesus died to create (Eph 2:14).

The sinner . . . while retaining the ability to imagine, has forfeited the basis on which to imagine God."[

Genesis 1 and the scientific evidence. The literary framework interpretation can easily be reconciled with any contemporary scientific theory of origin one chooses to embrace. Yet at the same time, reconciliation is not necessary. Genesis 1 has no bearing on science, for it is strictly interested in theology, not science. Responding

There is a word for such exercises we Germans do," Canaris said. "Vergangenheitsbewältigung—coming to terms with the past." Karl

Slowly, desolately, the fist of what we'd done unclenched the clawed palm of what we'd become.

Qasim Ali said that night, his bark-coloured eyes softening on the two young men, 'because justice is a judgement that is both fair and forgiving. Justice is not done until everyone is satisfied, even those who offend us and must be punished by us. You can see, by what we have done with these two boys, that justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.

Justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them

because justice is a judgement that is both fair and forgiving. Justice is not done until everyone is satisfied, even those who offend us and must be punished by us. You can see, by what we have done with these two boys, that justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.' I knew those words by heart. I

Be to, jei tikim?s, kad mums kas nors išeis, noriu, kad nieko nelikt? nepasakyta... apie praeit?.

It's said that you can never go home again, and it's true enough, of course. But the opposite is also true. You must go back, and you always go back, and you can never stop no matter how hard you try.

he'd been able to deal with that pain because he'd accepted his own part in causing it

I'd burned all the bridges that might've led me home.

that justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.

Begging your pardon, sir....One population can't make peace with another by force.

Staring at a world too horrible to comprehend, believing -- by dint of ignorance and innocence -- that beneath this unbearable contract of guilt and blame there is always an older contract that may bind and release in a more salutary way.

The World Trade Center site will forever hold a special place in our city, in our hearts. But we would be untrue to the best part of ourselves and who we are as New Yorkers and Americans if we said no to a mosque in lower Manhattan.

Hungary has a moral debt to the Jews that it helped send to death camps thirty years after the First World War.

My father had been a Wehrmacht officer in the second world war and was a violent and damaged man.

There are Jews who were born in Poland before World War II and survived the Holocaust, who think Poland and the Poles deserve an apology.

Germany has spent the decades since World War II in national penance for Nazi crimes. America spent the decades after the Civil War transforming Confederate crimes into virtues. It is illegal to fly the Nazi flag in Germany. The Confederate flag is enmeshed in the state flag of Mississippi.

I played in bombed-out houses and grew up with the ever-present consequences of a lost war and the awareness that my own country had inflicted terrible pain on many nations during the horrific World War II.

I needed to step away from music because the truth was I couldn't be the dad I wanted to be to my kids. My truth was that I could not reconcile the two worlds - the entertainment world and being the dad I wanted to be in the present. You can't substitute time, you just can't.