Quotes About Reconciliation

Netanyahu must mend fences with Obama.

I'm always the neutral guy, man. I'm able to bring people together.

I always forgive, but I never forget.

My daughter had carried within her a story that kept hurting her: Her dad abandoned her. She started telling herself a new story. Her dad had done the best he could. He wasn't capable of giving more. It had nothing to do with her. She could no longer take it personally.

Excessive stop-and-frisk divides communities. That's why the New York City Police Department has moved away from it.

If I could do one thing over I'd have been nicer to my parents.

In many ways when Jerry Ford pardoned Nixon, in a certain way, he did speak for the country.

To me, there's no point in having confrontation for the sake of it.

Ain't no problem with me and Kevin Gates; everybody just trippin'.

Look, we all make mistakes. That is no problem. But you have to be willing to make up for your mistakes and to help yourself.

You need to learn to forgive yourself first.

Life is full of second chances.

Cuando alguien te engaña, la primera vez es culpa suya, la segunda vez, la culpa es tuya.

And what of regrets? I shall live with them. I shall accept my regrets as part of my life, to be numbered among my self-inflicted wounds. But I will not endlessly gaze at them. I shall allow the memories to prod me into doing better with those still living. And I shall allow them to sharpen the vision and intensify the hope for that Great Day coming when we can all throw ourselves into each other's arms and say, I'm sorry.

Many fathers are gone. Some leave, some are left. Some return, unknown and hungry. Only the dog remembers.

Sorry Maureen.

Don't you ever have conversations where someone took a wrong turn at some point, and then it goes on and on and it becomes too late to put things right?

He's a sweet man whose crime was that he didn't love me quite enough, and because this wasn't much of a crime I had to make up some bigger ones.

ultimate in respectability: not only received back into the ranks of the people but also

The South lost ... and that is good ... and that hateful flag needs to come down ... and reparations need to be offered and if none of that can happen ... well ... let there be poetry

The struggle between God and man breaks out in everyone, together with the longing for reconciliation. Most often this struggle is unconscious and short-lived. A weak soul does not have the endurance to resist the flesh for very long. It grows heavy, becomes flesh itself, and the contest ends. But among responsible men, men who keep their eyes riveted day and night upon the Supreme Duty, the conflict between flesh and spirit breaks out mercilessly and may last until death.

A fault confessed is half redressed.

Quizás algún día volvamos a vernos. —No lo creo. Se abrazaron.

We must not confuse letting go of past injuries with feeling an obligation to let the injurers back into our life. The freedom of forgiveness often includes a firm boundary and loving distance from those who have harmed us. As my father likes to say, We can let them back into our hearts without ever letting them back into our house.