Quotes About Reconciliation

You damned fool, woman. Look at me. I'm alone. Once, I wasn't in a hurry to change that. And then, one day I woke up, and it was too late. Now, alone gives me my only peace, but it ain't a pleasant peace. You two loved each other - any idea how rare and precious that is? You broke yourself and broke him too, I'd think. Listen to me - go find him, Apsalar. Find him and hold onto him - now whose ego tortures itself, eh? There you are, thinking that change can only go one way.

this was how young boys made amends. Without words, with spare gestures that, in their rarity, acquired all the necessary significance.

Ah, my love. Forgive me.' He set out, boots crunching on the dead. Returned to the world. Draconus.

But, she wondered now, where was the crime in that most human of capacities: to carry in one's heart a contradiction, to leave it unchallenged, immune to reconciliation; indeed, to be two people at once, each true to herself, and neither denying the presence of the other? What vast laws of cosmology were broken by this human talent? Did the universe split asunder? Did reality lose its way?

Can we reconcile the observed constructiveness of cosmic evolution with the inherent destructiveness of thermodynamics? Specifically how have the magnificent examples of order all around us arisen from chaos?

Spurgeon was once asked how he could reconcile the apparent contradiction between these two truths. He replied: "I never have to reconcile friends. Divine sovereignty and human responsibility have never had a falling out with each other. I do not need to reconcile what God has joined together."2

If you don't find forgiveness, you'll never end up with peace,

What price peace?

Part of Owen lives inside him, because he had stolen it. Only by giving it back could Owen be restored, but Shem was physically incapable of achieving that at present. He had forgotten how to give.

There is almost too much to say between us, Val. A thousand apologies will not change the past on either side.

For a moment, she thought of Varencienne and an unfamilar pang clenched her heart. My daughter, she thought. Where is she? Will she ever forgive me for this?

The past is not all gilded memories of summer, Merlan. If some aspects of it are uncomfortable, it doesn't mean they shouldn't be confronted.

It is time now, Lily Murkaster, for you to come home.

When I got married in my twenties, I had a happy marriage and happy kids but at some point in time I let it go off the rails I let it go off the rails.

I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process. It's not something that happens overnight. It's an evolution of the heart.

People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It's that hard.

I'm so sorry," he panted. "I shouldn't have done such things to a girl like you before marriage. But I want every bit of you so much. And now we know that we are meant for each other. Our marriage will be blessed with this—passion.

Healing begins when we humble ourselves and go to one another asking for forgiveness.

God and I aren't exactly on speaking terms these days.

The more I prayed for my enemies, the softer my heart became.

The Democratic Party's success or failure - if they expect any opportunity to gain a political foothold in the foreseeable future - resides solely on the party's ability to reconcile with the American people, most especially with the Americans that they chose to ignore.

We have to rethink the two-state solution.

During my time in prison, I told myself that I wanted to be a part of the solution and not the problem.

My view is to try and not demonize the Palestinians. I'm not denying that there are Palestinians who fire rockets and do terrible things; I know that that happens. But to get a fundamental solution, you have to have hope on both sides.