Quotes About Reconciliation

Charles] Nodier's later view was that fantasy reconciles men to their fate. Fantasy and the taste for chimeras, he wrote, are symptoms of a time of political decay and transition, when the unpleasant realities of political life are too hard to bear. They serve a useful purpose in that they give men hope when scepticism and disillusion would otherwise drive them to despair.

Christian faith teaches us, if we are sensitive and able to be taught, that the seemingly opposite and opposed realms of radical doubt and absolute certainty are reconciled in a knowing beyond knowledge. There is no doubt for the believer that God dwells with us (as an event), yet there is a deep uncertainty about who, what, or even if God is (as a being).

Speaking of God in Northern Ireland has too often fomented distrust and prejudice, not peace and reconciliation; speaking of God has too often been part of the problem, not of the solution

Every time I make an assumption about someone who has hurt or disappointed me without confirming it, I believe a lie about this person in my head. This assumption is a misrepresentation of reality. Because I have not checked it out with the other person, it is very possible I am believing something untrue. It is also likely I will pass that false assumption around to others.

All our families are broken and marred by the effects of the Fall.

Unhealed wounds open us up to habitual sin against God and others.

We must pardon everyone because if not, it will be like we will have to punish all the population. We must pardon everyone because all ethnic groups did bad acts. (Thirty-eight-year-old female, Nyanza-Lac)

My family – my wife and my six children – was killed. I know who did it. I sometimes meet them in the street: they greet me and I greet them. I have forgiven them: they can never bring back my family, so it is the best thing to do. It is best to forget and to get on with life. (Forty-two-year-old ex-combatant, CNDD, now chef de colline, Nyanza-Lac)

More and more Burundians have started redefining the enemy not as all people of the other ethnicity but as extremists on the other side, or even as politicians of all stripes. By

Loathe to do it, I reached out and placed my hand on his father's jaw, instantly healing

Agatha: I don't want anyone dying on my behalf. Not even you ! Tarvek: Why, that's the nicest thing you've said to me since Sturmhalten. Agatha: Treasure it, and get out !

You don't right the wrongs of past by wronging the people of the present. (character Norm Woodruff)

You don't right the wrongs of the past by wronging the people of the present. (character Norm Woodruff)

Robert still lives in Morenci, Arizona, working in its mines. He is divorced now and sees his two daughters on weekends. When he can, he drives to El Paso to see his mother and his siblings. He has stopped using drugs and avoids trouble at all costs.

The Civil War ceased physically in 1865," noted Thomas Beer, a chronicler of the Mauve Decade, which closed out the century, "and its political end may be reasonably expected about the year 3000.

Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building.

Neko? v prihodnosti se bomo znašli v situaciji, ko bomo morali sprejeti vse, kar smo v preteklosti storili drugim, in to velja tako za dobre besede in dejanja kot za ostre in ponižujo?e.

Šele sedanje trpljenje zaradi krivice, ki smo jo neko? prizadeli drugim, nas pripelje do spoznanja, kako bole?e je bilo zanje takšno nepremišljeno in brezsr?no obnašanje.

He who pardons easily invites offense.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Who is happy with his appearance? I find many drawbacks of myself. But, each time when I visit Lourdes, I receive a lesson of reconciliation. When you see ill people or invalids around, you realize that it is a sin to complain!

I've been going to visit people in prison since I was a kid.

Visual representation of it is essential if we're to come to terms with what it is we've done.

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.