Quotes About Reconciliation

Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And ev'n with Paradise devise the snake; For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blackened - Man's forgiveness give and take!

God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man you try to conciliate him, because he may knock you down.

Never put a man in the wrong. He will hold it against you forever.

If any foes of mine are there, I pardon every one: I hope that man and womankind will do the same by me.

I would have given my own life if I could have undone the killing of white men by my people.

When your enemies defy you, you must serve them steel and fire. When they go to their knees, however, you must help them back to their feet. Elsewise no man will ever bend the knee to you

I was no party man myself, and the first wish of my heart was, if parties did exist, to reconcile them.

Lovers' quarrels are the renewal of love.

We are kings who represent the King of kings to the people of the earth. That is our ministry of reconciliation. But we also are "priests to our God," representing the peoples of the earth to our High Priest. In other words, we "stand in the gap before [God] on behalf of the land" (Ezek. 22:30). We are the "go-betweens." In a word, we intercede.

Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.

A committed church member is committed to the maintenance of peace in the congregation. "Let us pursue what makes for peace and mutual upbuilding" (Rom. 14:19). "And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace" (James 3:18).

Christians are people who are reconciled to God through Christ. As a consequence, we have been given "the ministry of reconciliation" (2 Cor. 5:18–21). So, a committed member strives to repair breaches as quickly as possible, even before continuing in public worship (Matt. 5:23–24).

Ministers of reconciliation must be patient and longsuffering. They must be characterized by meekness such that they do not think more highly of themselves than they ought (Matt. 5:5). They must hold up under the weight of disappointments, frustrations, loss, attack, slander, and offense (Matt. 18:21–22; Rom. 15:1). By carrying each others' burdens we fulfill the law of Christ (Gal. 6:2).

An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.

One is reminded of Lenin, who denied himself the pleasures of listening to Beethoven because it so reconciled him to the world that he wanted afterward to pat children on the head: a terrible weakness in a man who wanted to hit hard, who believed in the liberating powers of violence.

Nature takes the decision first, man agrees, reconciles, modifies, refutes, contradicts etc., subsequently. It means the application of reason, the discretionary power of a man, only happens afterwards!

Pastors and other church leaders make mistakes. Church members often exacerbate them.

He who demands mercy and shows none burns the bridges over which he himself must later pass.

First, I say that he draws near to those who make peace with him. For God is the One who brings about peace; and where else should peace dwell than in peace?

to make peace either in oneself or among others, shows a man to be a follower of God,

You are a Christian today only because God was the first to seek peace with you. You are now called and equipped to be the first to seek after peace and to attempt to pursue and maintain unity. As you do this you have the high honor of acting as an imitator of God.

Every experienced pastor knows that what the penitent heart says about itself is much more consequential than well-made truthful sentences that shout from the outside of the inner voice of conscience. No element of confession is more crucial than the discipline of listening. The attentive listener is a chosen agent of divine reconciliation. When the moment for keen listening is offered, take it as an inestimable gift.

I have nothing against Vince Neil at all.

I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.