Quotes About Reconciliation

forgiveness is how we unchain ourselves from the past.

Our guide was in the background saying, 'This whale has forgiven us. She has forgiven us for who we were and is seeing who we are today.

Are you saying we have to find a way of forgiving the oppressor?" I asked, somewhat suspect of this ability to forgive or have compassion for the oppressor.

He had said that forgiveness is how we unchain ourselves from the past. We

I wanted something seismic to happen at the end. I wanted him to wake up so we could somehow forgive each other, say we loved each another, move on with some sense of closure, for I knew this would be the last time I saw him, but he didn't wake up, and nothing was said.

A man whose axe was missing suspected his neighbor's son. The boy walked like a thief, looked like a thief, and spoke like a thief. But the man found his axe while he was digging in the valley, and the next time he saw his neighbor's son, the boy walked, looked, and spoke like any other child.

How else can we become reconciled, except one individual at a time? This Jesus you seek did not come to address nations. He washed the wounds of lepers. He dined with sinners. He healed all who came to him. One person at a time.

Why is this important? Because it means the division between God and man has been abolished.

you of all have the most to forgive." "Ah, and if so," he responded, "I have the most blessing to receive after I've done so.

If I didn't forgive the people who took me into the barracks and beat me unconscious over a period of days during the period when the British state was indicted for inhuman and degrading treatment in 1971-72, or even the guys who shot me, if you don't forgive them, you end up with unnecessary baggage.

The American middle class has always existed to reconcile the apparently irreconcilable: settled values with unsettled ones, social mobility with a sense of permanence.

My wish is to be a catalyst, to push for solutions, to broker peace talks, to ensure accountability, especially for those who committed and are still organizing unspeakable crimes.

I'm working on my relationship with my mother and father, but my upbringing has been very destructive.

Since 2011, I am happy to say that I have reconciled with Ahmed Hirsi; we have married in our faith tradition and are raising our family together. Like all families, we have had our ups and downs, but we are proud to have come through it together.

I don't want people to feel like I'm upset or bitter with C-Webb or the University of Michigan. I love them both.

One thing about racing, a lot of times you'll get upset with someone, yet we live in confinement here. It's almost like we live in a prison and you have to try and get along. Forgive and forget.

Decide in your heart to be at peace with all men.

If you want peace, work for justice.

I know how guys talk, so I'm not easily offended. Guys can fight and be best friends five minutes later. Women have to air it out, hold on to it, work on it.

It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.

In your own life, you should take particular care with endings, for their color will forever tinge your memory of the entire relationship and your willingness to reenter it.

You can work on healing, uplifting, and changing situations from a place of forgiveness, instead of from a place of resentment. Forgive yourself and everyone, and you are free!

Let the brain go to work, let it meet the heart and you will be able to forgive.

That's what our work can do: we remind people that things can change, that wounds can heal, that people can be forgiven, and that closed hearts can open again.