Quotes About Reconciliation

You know, I don't think there's anything truly unforgivable. Not where there's love.

When wars end, all the shit comes tumbling out. People talk, point fingers at each other, reveal things they've kept quiet for years.

When somebody dies, you forget they're an asshole.

I told him before all of this happened was that holding on to that kind of grudge was like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

I wil tell you something very important: there is value in forgiveness.

Religion may be a private affair, but the woik and word of God are the reconciliation of the world with God, as it was performed in Jesus Christ.

God's love toward us commends itself in this, that Christ died for us while we were still weak, still sinners, still godless, still enemies. It has therefore not waited for us, but has come to meet us and gone before us.

He reconciles them with God through His death. That means that in His own death He makes their peace with God--before they themselves have decided for this peace and quite apart from that decision. In believing, they are only conforming to the decision about them that has already been made in Him.

He had been reconciled to death during the war and then suddenly the war was over and there was a next day and a next day and a next day. Part of him never adjusted to having a future.

Takes a man or a woman to say I'm sorry, and it takes a fool to walk away.

You must embrace the man you hate, if you cannot be justified in knocking him down.

The ultimate form of love for God and men is forgiveness.

A man's enemies are those he should endeavor first to make his friends.

We are saved by a man who died loving his enemies.

There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.

A man has not the time to spend half his life in quarrels. If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.

An angry man can only get so far until he reconciles the way he thinks.

Jesus Christ became Incarnate for one purpose, to make a way back to God that man might stand before Him as He was created to do, the friend and lover of God Himself.

The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.

Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,--as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.

There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.

Mandela stands alone in possessing all of the qualities of other great men, but has one quality which is transcendent... his ability to forgive and to place others above himself.

If somebody had told me in the 1980s that Gerry Adams would shake hands with Ian Paisley or Peter Robinson I would have said put that man in a white suit and lock him up in a padded cell.

Repentance doth alter a man's case with God: and therefore repentance should alter the case between one man and another.