Quotes About Reconciliation

September felt sure that her shadow and everyone's shadows were all part of the same broken thing, and broken things were to be fixed, whatever the cost, especially if you had been the one to break it in the first place.

The physical beauty of Venice and the moral ugliness of America were more and more difficult for Julian to reconcile.

In other words, can I apologize without demanding your forgiveness?

Can I write honestly? Not only about how much I've been hurt but how I have hurt others? And can I do it without steeping myself in guilt, since guilt demands absolution and is therefore self-serving? In other words, can I apologize without demanding your forgiveness? Where do I begin?

He instructed me how futile it is to wallow in regret for that which cannot be changed and how atonement might be made for even the gravest sins.

One day, I hope to go back. To my wife, to my girls, but also to the man of moral certainty that I was that day; that innocent man, who knew with such clear confidence exactly what it was that he was meant to do.

No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, nor knows it so thoroughly, nor is so much disgusted with it, but that when it begins to smile upon him he does not become partially reconciled to it.

A stiff apology is a second insult. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

Forgive someone today. Especially if that someone is you.

Love is the opposite of judgment. Love is acceptance. It is accepting our own judgments without acting on them and accepting other people's judgments and beliefs without reacting to them. The result of acceptance is peace. Therefore, the antidote to war is acceptance. If everyone would let everyone else have their beliefs, it would be possible for people to live in harmony.

We all do stupid, careless, or hurtful things that we later regret. If relationships are to last, we have to find a way to not only forgive these indiscretions, but also forget them.

Forgiveness is never not possible.

The modern adult, Jake had written, has really only one thing to say to its inner child: I'm sorry. I'm so fucking sorry 

Peace is purchased in the currency of loss.

The peacebuilder then is a man or woman who is helping to figure the conditions of possibilities for the "presencing" of the reunion (unity, koinonia, shalom) in and between groups (communities, socialities).

A-tone-ment-its a chance to fix the unfixable and to start all over again. It begins when you forgive yourself for all you've done wrong, and forgive others for all they've done to you. Your mistakes aren't mistakes anymore, they're just things that make you stronger.

God has accepted your repentance. He gives his forgiveness freely.

peace comes with forgiveness. And sometimes forgiveness must be earned—not from other men, but from our own hearts and spirits.

I believed that was the point of real forgiveness: It was freely given. Grace-filled. Unsolicited.

According to the wisdom of Indian Country on my own continent, it takes four generations to heal one act of violence. What

Our grief is not a cry for war.

Na Terytorium India?skim panuje przekonanie, ?e trzeba czterech pokole?, aby uleczy? jeden akt przemocy.

I knew then that Grandfather had forgiven me and that I would have a home, but something inside me was sorry that once again I would lose Rachel Sheridan.

When peace comes we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons. Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.