Quotes About Reconciliation

Violence is stupid. Even as a last resort, it only ever begets more of the same.

it's clear that before we can be a father and son again, we have to treat each other like men first.

Euodia comes from a word that means "a fair journey." Syntyche comes from a word that can mean "an accident." Along our fair journey we may collide with another, but God always has grace for restoration.

17There are two sides to every story. The first one to speak sounds true until you hear the other side and they set the record straight.i

8But Christ proved God's passionate love for us by dying in our place while we were still lost and ungodly!

It was only after Caroline had admitted lying to me, and only after she'd made me admit that I'd lied to her, were we both fully ready to believe each other. To quote John Calvin one last time, "Not that they may believe against their wills (which would be impossible), but that they may be made willing to believe who were before unwilling to believe.

Jesus said the standard was seventy times seven. I read somewhere that Dietrich Bonhoeffer explained it this way: "As long as you are counting, you haven't forgiven once." In

We cannot change the hearts of those people of the South, but we can make war so terrible that they will realize the fact that however brave and gallant and devoted to their country, still they are mortal and should exhaust all peaceful remedies before they fly to war.23

Hearts grow hard and weary. Pain spreads, and joy diminishes. Those who hated you hate you still, but those who loved you, or would have loved you, or wanted to love you but never had the chance, are being scraped hollow by a loss they don't understand. Come home. Please come home. We are withering without you.

Paul preached Jesus in Jewish synagogues and popular Gentile gathering places. Both groups responded to the gospel, and instead of starting two churches, Paul formed one local assembly and called them to work out horizontally what God in Christ had already accomplished for them vertically: reconciliation.

He may be angry at our rebellion, but he is never angry at our return.

The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements.

Wish for the happiness of your enemies, for if they are happy, they are your enemy no more.

All violence demands reform, and all violence desperately begs to be healed.

You reclaim your power by loving what you were once taught to hate.

You—stink," I ended lamely, so sore I couldn't even try to be clever. "Okay, I stink," he said, walking off, "but someday you'll cut off an arm for one little whiff.

Hast thou given the first kiss to a maiden? Write her speedily on the morrow before she giveth thee fierce words; assure her and comfort her woe; let her remorse be abated, give unto her an excuse for her conduct.

if he had attended burial services for one of his bitter enemies, said, "No, I didn't patronize the funeral, but I approve of it.

The wrath and the enmity of God are not for a moment in contradiction with God's reconciliatory will and love, and pointing to the wrath of God has the constant intention of disclosing to man God's grace and love in Christ. Indeed, the object even of the working of God's wrath itself is to cause his plan of redemption to triumph.

Porque nadie es tan necio que prefiera la guerra a la paz: en ésta los hijos entierran a sus padres, y en aquella los padres a los hijos.

When the song of the angels is stilled, when the star in the sky is gone, when the kings and princes are home, when the shepherds are back with their flocks, the work of Christmas begins: to find the lost, to heal the broken, to feed the hungry, to release the prisoner, to rebuild the nations, to bring peace among the people, to make music in the heart.

Restorative justice expands the circle of stakeholders—those with a stake or standing in the event or the case—beyond just the government and the offender to include victims and community members also.1

Christians can help people receive the message of reconciliation to God by modeling reconciliation among themselves. John 13:35 says, "By this everyone will know that you are my disciples if you love one another." How well do we show love when we disagree? Nonbelievers look on and wonder if they can trust Christians to deal gently and respectfully with their questions and doubts if we don't treat each other that way.

There is an old saying that goes 'Start by plucking a hair, end by killing a man'. It is also said, 'Two hands must meet to make a sound'. The atrocities that happened here weren't carried out by strangers - it was us, the people who'd once lived together harmoniously in the same village. They say it was the superstitious freaks who did it. No, it was Satan who did it. Come now, what sort of a ghost is that? Ryu Yosop replied, It is the black thing that lives in the heart of every man.