Quotes About Reconciliation

True repentance means making amends with the person when at all possible.

And bear in mind that forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.

If the robot can recognize the clean flame of life in men who have never fallen from life then he repents, and his will breaks, and a great love of life brings him to his knees, in homage and pure passion of service. Then he receives the kiss of reconciliation and ceases to be a robot, and becomes a servant of life.

What you hope for, like Unforgiven did a lot to give you a chance to do it again sometime.

Wrongs done could not be righted, but at least they were not still being done.

Humour in its highest reach mingles with pathos: it voices sorrow for our human lot and reconciliation with it.

Humour is essentially a comforter, reconciling us to things as they are in contrast to things as they might be.

The idea of God holding a grudge against us and needing to be asked to forgive us is an outrage on the Fatherhood of God.

We ontkenden de fouten van de ander niet. We wonnen hen terug door gebed. We vroegen Christus om met Zijn liefde in ons te komen en door ons heen naar die andere persoon toe te gaan, herinneringen te genezen en alles wat goed en mooi was aan die ander naar boven te laten komen

The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations.

God may forgive you if He chooses, but not I. Au revoir.

They pushed closer. Chest to chest. Belly to belly. Two edges of a wound needing to heal.

You can embark on new and steeper versions of your old sins, you know, and cry tears while doing it that are genuine as any.

Fresh peach pie can lift a bullying reprobate into apologetic courtesy; I have watched it happen.

Don't be afraid to let it go. Releasing hate does not make you forget what you want always to remember. It does not mean reconciliation.

By remembering that what you cannot undo, you must accept. And in accepting…you will find the grace to forgive yourself.

When you apologize, it is a bit like reaching the last page of a book. The book is still there, with your wicked deed inside, but at least it is closed and put on a shelf. Every single thing I ought to have apologized for, and didn't, is like a book lying open and unfinished.

Even if you have just destroyed a Ming Vase, purr. Usually all will be forgiven.

There comes a time in some relationships when no matter how sincere the attempt to reconcile the differences or how strong the wish to recreate a part of the past once shared, the struggle becomes so painful that nothing else is felt and the world and all its beauty only add to the discomfort by providing cruel contrast.

Love those you hate you.

To get rid of an enemy one must love him.

What You Can Do About Sundown Towns: The Three-Step Program in Action To help sundown towns transcend their pasts and end second-generation sundown town issues, I suggest a "Three-Step Program": •?Admit it: "We did this." •?Apologize: "It was wrong, and we apologize." •?Renounce: "And we don't do it anymore.

Since "healthy communities are able to recognize past mistakes," they went on to "pledge to work toward the common good in building a community where people of all races and cultural backgrounds are welcome to live and prosper.

After Col. Henry Bouquet defeated the Ohio Indians at Bushy Run in 1763, he demanded the release of all white captives. Most of them, especially the children, had to be "bound hand and foot" and forcibly returned to white society. Meanwhile, the Native prisoners "went back to their defeated relations with great signs of joy," in the words of the anthropologist Frederick Turner (in Beyond Geography, 245). Turner rightly calls these scenes "infamous and embarrassing.