Quotes About Reconciliation

No condemnation now exists for those in Christ Jesus. Romans 8:1

Every conversion cost the same amount of Christ's blood shed on the cross.

If you forgive people their wrongdoing, your heavenly Father will forgive you as well. Matthew 6:14

Like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be recovered, so we must die. But God does not take away life; instead, he devises ways so that a banished person may not remain estranged from him. (2 Sam. 14:14)

God is never in the wrong when He and one of His children are separated; yet He devises ways so that the banished person may not remain estranged from Him. Never underestimate the significance of timing when it comes to mending. You may not get another chance.

Those that we need to forgive most often grasp the least how much they've hurt us. If they understood and took responsibility, it wouldn't take the cross to forgive them. It could just happen over coffee...'Father I forgive them in Christ's name, for they don't understand what they did.

God remembers our sins no more because the work of the cross already has. No further sacrifice remains for sin because the work has already been accomplished. Therefore, God need never act again on their behalf.

Now He has reconciled you by His physical body through His death, to present you holy, faultless, and blameless before Him. Colossians 1:22

Of course, maybe that's what I love best of all about God. We've never gone so far that we can't be fetched.

Nothing is unforgivable, thank God. But some things cannot be excused. They must be repented of and dramatically corrected and permanently changed.

We are ambassadors for Christ; certain that God is appealing through us, we plead on Christ's behalf: "Be reconciled to God." 2 Corinthians 5:20

He has reconciled you by His physical body through His death, to present you holy, faultless, and blameless before Him. Colossians 1:22

Please forgive your brothers' transgression and their sin—the wrong they caused you. Genesis 50:17

become increasingly convinced that those we need to forgive most often grasp the least how much they've hurt us.

Forgivness is not just for the offender. It is also for the one who is offended. If we do not forgive, we end up in perpetual anger and bitterness and eventually offend others with our words or actions. If we forgive, we experience a letting go or cleansing process that frees us from the offender.

I'm not gonna ruin my reputation with the blacks no more.

I resemble the father I once hated.

No one ever saw all of him. It took me nearly four decades to allow my father his shadows, his reserve, to sit silently with him and not clamor for something more.

Most Canadians previously had no idea what went on in the residential schools. You tell Canadians the last one closed in 1996, they are appalled. So now that Canadians are aware of residential schools, you'd think there would be a huge impetus for progress. It hasn't, and that's amazing.

The depth of this conflict, which is more than one hundred years old, requires us to find a way to communicate... so that the residents of the Middle East, Jews and Arabs alike, can live not as if they were forced to live together, but rather destined to live together.

As both a student of history and a man devoted to living in the present, I admit that I do not spend a lot of time imagining how things might otherwise have been. But I do like to think there is a difference between being resigned to a situation and reconciled to it.

I was 20 when I was sentenced to death. My life had been on a one-way path to self-destruction for years. I don't remember too much about my early life, but I think I had a happy childhood, growing up in Philadelphia in a loving family with five siblings.

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.