Quotes About Reconciliation

Going home must be like going to render an account.

Even if I could be forgiven, how long could I keep up the insincere apologies I made in pain, once I was back in my comfortable old high place. IV-98. For never can true reconcilement grow / Where wounds of deadly hate have peirc'd so deep:

The sanctifying grace required for these Sac raments can be obtained either by making an act of perfect contrition or by worthily receiving the Sacrament of Penance.

I . . . I'm sorry about what I said about Bluestar

No!" His voice rang out in the night air. "Hollyleaf, I won't let you run away again.

when you come back.

Maybe now she won't be so angry. And maybe in future the Clans can finally learn to get along in peace.

I'm sorry Sandstorm" he murmured. "I never meant to hurt you" His voice barely more than a whisper, he added,"I love you." Sandstorm's eyes glowed."I love you too,Fireheart.

But seen through a long lens, peacemaking founded on 'forgetting' appears to have a limited lifespan.

At the end of this journey, it seems to me that reconciling the long shadows cast by the uneasy past may ultimately depend on elements so basic that they bring to mind a simple Slav proverb I once came across and never forgot: Eat bread and salt and speak the truth. They are the recovery of fact, public accountability and the instituting of fair trials of one sort or another, to help mark ends and beginnings and to return the moral compass as close to the centre as possible.

Yeah. I was on a roll. In less than six months, I'd managed to wreck both of my closest friendships.

as long as we were both still alive, there was a chance I could make things right with her.

Fraternity means that the father no longer sacrifices the sons; instead the brothers kill one another. Wars between nations have been replaced by civil war. The great settling of accounts, first under national 'pretexts,' led to a rapidly escalating world civil war.

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

It's like that, I guess, when the past come to collect what you owe.

But then, gradually, miraculously, things began to clear between us. We were able to speak as we'd once done, with great love and little calculation.

There is no once and for all moment when we can say that at last we are whole, the past is buried and over, the hurts forgotten, the wounds healed. Instead we find that it is to be a search that we must expect to continue throughout our lives.

When you're out of sight for as long as I was, there's a funny feeling of betrayal that comes over people when they see you again.

I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try.

They'll all get to know me firsthand, the little and the big, the small and the great. They'll get to know me by being kindly forgiven, with the slate of their sins forever wiped clean.

21This is exactly the message of GOD that Jeremiah had preached: the desolate land put to an extended sabbath rest, a seventy-year Sabbath rest making up for all the unkept Sabbaths.

If you have anything against someone, forgive — only then will your heavenly Father be inclined to also wipe your slate clean of sins.

In this case, I can only hope that my life, which is my crime, might also serve as my apology.

I apologize for slavery. It wasn't me, true. But it might have been my cousin.