Quotes About Reconciliation

How rare it is, even among Christians, for a person to say "I was wrong. I sinned, and I'm fully responsible. My sinful desires motivated me, and what I did dishonored God and hurt you. Please forgive me.

The key to a good apology is to keep it simple, sincere and timely.

I think I upset your father

All those small injuries, sorrows, wounds, regrets—the hurtful words, the pain people inflicted on each other, intentionally or not, that seemed so important once. You might not even remember anymore what they were about, those things that once made you so angry, bitter, hurt. Or maybe you remembered, but did any of it matter, really? (Who said what? Who did what, when? Who hurt whom? Well, everybody had hurt everyone.)

There are some hurts that we experience that can be forgiven but we won't forget them.

I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it's like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.

Los dos grupos que hasta ayer se mataban se encuentran a mitad de camino en medio de la desolación, entre embudos cenagosos, cadáveres semienterrados y chatarra bélica oxidada. Alemanes e ingleses se contemplan, astrosos, barbudos, sucios, tan parecidos si no fuera por el uniforme, tan humanos, tan distintos de como los presentan las caricaturas de la propaganda.

El olvido era lo único democrático en Colombia: los cubría todos, a los buenos y a los malos, a los asesinos y a los héroes como la nieve en el cuento de Joyce, cayendo sobre todos por igual.

Éste es el único consuelo que tenemos nosotros, los hijos de este país incendiado, condenados como estamos a recordar y averiguar y lamentar, y luego a componer canciones para el incendio.

Tales son las trampas de la memoria, tal el peso de los pecados que no cometimos, pero que expiamos.

I can always forgive where I understand.

Stop telling her you're sorry- Judge Brady O'Callaghan to politician Melvin G. Slack in a September 1, 2022 protective order hearing, after Slack apologized repeatedly to Global Activist Greshun De Bouse concerning putting her in a chokehold

Though both partners may wish for reconciliation, their unspoken goals are often sharply in conflict. The abuser usually wishes to reestablish his pattern of coercive control, while the victim wishes to resist it.

The wall of it rose between them, higher than any she could raise with power. Too high by far to leap, too sheer to scale. But a gate—that, God willing, they could build. If she could learn to trust him again. If he could learn to rule his temper.

One advantage of marriage is that when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.

O]b dies das eigentliche Ende des Gefangenendilemmas sei: wenn Richter und Angeklagte sich in die Arme fielen, um gemeinsam über einen Repräsentanten der alten Ordnung zu spotten.

So sorry. Sit down in the seat of shame between your parents. Hee.

Cuánto tiempo tendrá que pasar para que nos perdonemos los unos a los otros?

Turner let his face fell into his hands. "I'm never going to touch her again", he moaned. "He's never going to touch me again!" they heard Miranda roar. "Well,it doesn't look like you'll have much argument from your wife on that point", Olivia chirped.

For all their recent rapprochement

This is an Australia I'm willing to celebrate; an Australia that listens, learns and empathises with our Indigenous people.

Initially, I think I was eager to get off Staten Island and go away for school, that kind of thing. Then what you do maybe 10 years after that, you start maybe appreciating all the great things about the place you grew up. You can go back and enjoy it because you don't have that angst or sense of struggle to get away anymore.

When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually.

I do not intend to prejudge the past.