Quotes About Reconciliation

Your Majesty, is it true that your cousins held you down in a water cache? Is it also true that they wouldn't let you out until you agreed to repeat insults about your own family? I could send you to ask them. It would be a long trip, your Majesty. I would much rather hear the answer from you. Oh the trip would be much faster than you think. Most of my male cousins are dead. Forgive me, Your Majesty, if I offended.

No, he said. Relius was right and I was wrong. You are My Queen. Even though you cut my head from my shoulders, with my last breath as a noose tightens, to the last beat of my heart if I hang from the walls of the palace, you are My Queen. That I have failed you does not change my love for you or my loyalty.

Least said, soonest mended.

You have punished me long enough, you have punished yourself long enough. Return to me. I beg.

I take it back! she'd wanted to say . I take everything back. I love you. Let's go away. Just the two of us together.

Forgiveness is wonderful. It wipes the slate clean. It clears up guilt. It brings peace and harmony

How to forgive when you really didn't want to? Convince yourself that you do, of course.

The Long Way Home Why is it when people feel they are losing each other they always leave each other? Why do people walk away from their house when all they have to do to get home is turn around?

Through the practice of compassion and forgiveness, I was able to sustain my appreciation for her work and cope with the grief and disappointment I felt about the loss of this relationship. Practicing compassion enabled me to understand why she might have acted as she did and to forgive her. Forgiving means that I am able to see her as a member of my community still, one who has a place in my heart should she wish to claim it.

True forgiveness requires that we understand the negative actions of another.

Without conscious forgiveness there can be no genuine reconciliation. Making amends both to ourselves and to others is the gift compassion and forgiveness offers us. It is a process of emptying out wherein we let go all the waste so that there is a clear place within where we can see the other as ourself.

Forgiveness is an act of generosity. It requires that we place releasing someone else from the prison of their guilt or anguish over our feelings of outrage or anger.

When we practice forgiveness, we let go of shame. Embedded in our shame is always a sense of being unworthy. It separates. Compassion and forgiveness reconnect us.

Whenever we heal family wounds, we strengthen community.

Only love can heal the wounds of the past.

As Proverbs 17:9 reminds us, peace is more likely when one forgets about past wrongs as opposed to reminding others of them.

made more than a century ago? Certain individuals feel that the United States cannot be forgiven for slavery until reparations are made to the descendants of slaves. This belief goes back to Mosaic laws requiring anyone who caused harm to someone else to make reparations to that individual or to the family if the

We Irish know one thing above all others: an enemy forgiven is an enemy who will have to be fought over and over again.

You can't live somewhere," he told me, "if the people don't want you to be there. They can kill our cattle or poison our streams, and we would never know who did it. You either slaughter them all or learn to live with them.

What are our intentions, sir?" "Our intentions, Milton? Our intentions are victory, fame, glory, peace, forgiveness of our enemies, reconciliation, magnanimity, prosperity, happiness, and the assured promise of heaven's reward." "Then might I suggest, sir," Cogswell said, trying to sober the ebullient Senator, "that we advance and occupy that stand of trees?

c'mon now, honey, don't be mad at me. I don't mean to lie, I just remember big.

I've become increasingly convinced that those we need to forgive most often grasp the least how much they've hurt us. If they understood and took responsibility, it wouldn't have taken the Cross to forgive them. It could have just happened over coffee.

How happy those whose lawless acts are forgiven! … How happy the man whom the Lord will never charge with sin! Romans 4:7–8

Be compassionate and humble, not paying back evil for evil or insult for insult but, on the contrary, giving a blessing. 1 Peter 3:8–9