Quotes About Reconciliation

Xander hadn't talked to me since Sunday. Which was REALLY bumming me out. Like, usually when he says he'll never forgive me and I'm dead to him? He gets over it in like an hour. So this was pretty serious.

I've seen a disobedient client simply turn his attention toward The Adversary and ask "Are You still there?" and suddenly all was made well between them.

Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.

The information I got from one person often contradicted the version I heard from another, so I'd long ago gotten into the habit of trying to hear as many different stories as I could and averaging them all out.

But then you met Dad in the drugstore." She laughed—not a happy laugh, exactly, but one you might use in talking about an embarrassing incident from your past.

A closer examination of the passages in Romans 5 and 2 Corinthians 5 leads to the inescapable conclusion that reconciliation is not primarily a change in humanity's attitude toward God; it is, like justification, an objective event that is accomplished by God for humanity's salvation.

It is a work … outside of us in which God so deals in Christ with the sin of the world, that it shall no longer be a barrier between himself and men … reconciliation, in the New Testament sense, is not something which is being done; it is something which is done.35

In such instances a person serves not only as a representative but is acting in the stead of the other. In such passages as 2 Corinthians 5:15, "He died for all," and Galatians 3:13 where it is said that Christ became a curse on our behalf, the idea of substitution is demanded and "only violence to the context can get rid of it.

There's no real making amends in this world, any more nor you can mend a wrong subtraction by doing your addition right.

But I've forgiven Hugh, because if I don't forgive him, there is no hope for forgiveness for someone like me.

Do we need to give you some privacy for the makeup sex?

Helen looked at her from the floor, her big green eyes huge on her face. "He started it." And she finished it. "You weren't wrong," Maud said. "But you weren't wise.

I apologize for kidnapping you," he said. "I promise not to kidnap you before, during, or after lunch.

Is the turtle sick?" I asked to needle them. Maria gave me a look sharp enough to draw blood. "Hold your tongue, evil spawn." There's the old harpy I know. All is right with the world.

Some people conflate forgiveness with absolution

A wish for a future no longer tainted by the past. A future that held joy, not regret. A future that offered love instead of loneliness.

Those who occasion loss of dignity are hard to forgive.

Forgive me for not being able to be with you.

In my experience a good row not only does not clear the air but can land you with a lifelong enemy.

Well Joe, the truth is that you're not a bad guy, but you have been a bit mysogynistic and homophobic. So your punishment is to make you walk the earth as a homosexual ghost buggering your old mates and aquaitances.

Ah took a pish oan the cunt, then ah felt bad aboot Albo's cel so ah sais tae him oan the wey oot, cunt's only went n pished hissel but, eh.

Al parecer, cree más en la curación que en el castigo de los criminales. Considero esto muy significativo.

Me eché a llorar sin control, y ese torrente de lágrimas me fue lavando por dentro hasta que nada quedó del rencor y la culpa y los malos recuerdos.

Saboreaban la amargura de una despedida que presentían, pero que todavía podían confundir con una reconciliación.