Quotes About Reconciliation

M for Mischa.

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

It would lead him back, restore him to himself, but there is nothing so distasteful as being restored to oneself when one is beside oneself.

God help our darkened and desecrated country and teach it to make its peace with the world and with itself!

Nu putem fi în relaÈ›ii de pace cu alÅ£ii pentru c? nu suntem în relaÅ£ii de pace cu noi înÅŸine, ÅŸi nu putem fi în relaÅ£ii de pace cu noi înÅŸine pentru c? nu avem pace cu Dumnezeu.

And yet with every wound You robbed me of a crime, And as each blow was paid with Blood, You paid me also each great sin with greater graces. For even as I killed You, You made Yourself a greater thief than any in Your company, Stealing my sins into Your dying life, Robbing me even of my death.

AN ELDER was asked by a certain soldier if God would forgive a sinner. And he said to him: Tell me, beloved, if your cloak is torn, will you throw it away? The soldier replied and said: No. I will mend it and put it back on. The elder said to him: If you take care of your cloak, will God not be merciful to His own image?

Father, I love You Whom I do not know, and I embrace You Whom I do not see, and I abandon myself to You Whom I have offended because You love in me Your only begotten Son. You see Him in me, You embrace Him in me, because He has willed to identify Himself completely with me by that love which brought Him to death, for me, on the Cross.

We do not really know how to forgive until we know what it is to be forgiven. Therefore we should be glad that we can be forgiven by our brothers. It is our forgiveness of one another that makes the love of Jesus for us manifest in our lives, for in forgiving one another we act towards one another as He has acted towards us.

A person carrying a grudge who can't forgive is only hurting themself.

For learning to live happily even after, finding a way to forgive the unforgivable, and to move forward in life graciously with hope in our hearts and goodwill in our gestures and in our words, may very well be the essence of what it is to truly love each other.

Grab a plate and throw it on the ground. Okay done. Did it break? Yes. Now say sorry to it. Sorry. Did it go back to the way it was before? No. Do you understand?

Much of the horror of a breakup is the insult to our expectations of how this story was supposed to unfold versus how it actually did.

leaving each other, and all those impacted by our separation, whole, healthy, and complete rather than wounded, walled off, and significantly broken by the experience.

Kerwick, tú y yo jamás podremos regresar adonde estábamos antes que vinieran los normandos. Entre nosotros se ha cerrado una puerta. Olvida que fui una vez tu prometida. -Ninguna puerta hay entre nosotros, Aislinn —dijo él con amargura-. Sólo un hombre." El bobo y la paloma.

You sure did break that boy's heart." "I know," Krissa agreed. She didn't mind Jewel saying that. At least someone in this house had been on his side. "But I'm here now." "That's true," Jewel conceded, and the two women exchanged a look. We will help him through this.

If you don't deal with the past, the past deals with you.

For while all forgiveness is the balm of our compassionate Mother, self-forgiveness is needed most of all. Embrace

FINDING FORGIVENESS : THE EXTRAORDINARY LEGACY OF AMY BIEHL AND HER FAMILY

Forgiveness is the great equalizer. It costs you nothing but buys you everything.

good Christian, Nelly. What else could I do but forgive him? Though my forgiveness was initially hard to give, I admit

What were she and Maxwell talking about at this moment? "I owe you an apology." Archer came to stand beside him, also looking over the garden. "I shouldn't have said what I did. It was very low of me." Grey shrugged. "You've said worse." "True, but those times I was right." He laughed. "I'm not so sure you're not right now as well.

You'll regret crossing me!' 'Richard, I regret meeting you. I think you can safely assume that I also regret everything after that as well." (Smith 252)