Quotes About Reconciliation

I lost contact with my father for many years because of apartheid. For, like, six years, I didn't see my dad. And, now, this was the six years of being a teenager.

My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That's what happens when you haven't been home in eighteen years.

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.

The only possible role that I can see for reconciliation would be to make modest changes in the major package to improve affordability, to deal with what share of Medicaid expansion the federal government pays, those kinds of issues, which is the traditional role for reconciliation in health care.

Sometimes our partners from other countries ask us why we have not got further with our reconciliation, as if we possess a magic to just get rid of this tragic history of ours.

Forgiveness is enshrined in the Lord's prayer - forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. These scriptures point to the power of forgiveness not only as a way to absolve transgressions but to ensure that the person extending forgiveness will be forgiven of theirs.

I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.

It's about misunderstandings between people and places, being disconnected and looking for moments of connection. There are so many moments in life when people don't say what they mean, when they are just missing each other, waiting to run into each other in a hallway.

He thought that all men, great and small, bond and free, were sinners in the sight of God; that they were, by nature, rebels against His government; and that they must repent of their sins, and be reconciled to God, through Christ. I cannot say that I had a very distinct notion of what was required of me; but one thing I knew very well—I was wretched, and had no means of making myself otherwise. Moreover, I knew that I could pray for light.

Holy At the cross of the cross Is the part that holds. Two roads Meet; after that is the work of continuing On. Beyond intersection Lies departure, which is then to see What goes on without you, what Does not go wrong. Once tree reconciles Against another; arm over arm…

He wondered how many new starts a person was entitled to, how many times one could say it was the other person's fault and truly believe it.

Henry Ward Beecher expressed the thought this way: "I can forgive but I cannot forget is another way of saying I cannot forgive.

peace is the only way to peace

All ye nations, clap your hands: sing in jubilee to the glorious Virgin. For she is the gate of life, the door of salvation, and the way of our reconciliation. The hope of the penitent: the comfort of those that weep: the blessed peace of hearts, and their salvation. Have mercy on me, O Lady, have mercy on me: for thou art the light and the hope of all who trust in thee. By thy salutary fecundity let it please thee: that pardon of my sins may be granted unto me.

Have mercy on me, O Lady: for thou art called the Mother of Mercy. And according to thy mercy: cleanse me from all my iniquities. Pour forth thy grace upon me: and withdraw not from me thine accustomed clemency. For I will confess my sins to thee: and I will accuse myself of all my crimes before thee. Reconcile me to the Fruit of thy womb: and make peace for me with Him who has created me.

There is, then, a wicked mediator, who separates friends, and a good Mediator, who reconciles enemies.

Incomprehensible and immutable is the love wherewith God loves. He did not begin to love us only on the day we were reconciled to Him by the blood of His Son; He loved us before the world was made, that we too might become His sons together with His Only-begotten Son, long before we had any existence....

We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have lost their way.

I have sinned against my brother the ass.

We all apologize, or fail to, in our own ways.

Although we can't fully retract our words once they're out there, we can apologize.

War would end if the dead could return.

She said she was sorry, which was kind but unnecessary, I said I was sorry too. We were both sorry and understanding

Does truth prevail more if we are not on speaking terms with those whose view of truth differs from ours?