Quotes About Reconciliation

In families, there are no crimes beyond forgiveness.

We've made it back to each other. We've got lots of time to try our hands at restoring the ruins

My life did not really begin until I summoned the power to forgive my father for making my childhood a long march of terror.

I need you to forgive me. And then perhaps I can begin to forgive myself. There is no one but you who can do that either.

Sophie von Hahn refused to be cowed, embarrassed, resentful, dishonest or passed over. [...] She intended to bewitch her straying childhood lover all over again, and free him from whatever noxious enchantment had induced him to be censorious and horrid. No fear, no guilt, no shame. She set out to win.

Let's never try to get even with our enemies, because if we do we will hurt ourselves far more than we hurt them. Let's do as General Eisenhower does: let's never waste a minute thinking about people we don't like.

We are much more forgiving of those who are willing to come clean right away.

Anne's mistake was not without consequence, but in admitting the mistake and seeking forgiveness, she allowed room for a

El protestador crónico, aun el crítico más violento, se suavizará y apaciguará frecuentemente en presencia de un oyente que muestre paciencia y simpatía:

Now just think of what the quality of life and character must be in a person who would routinely interrupt sacred rituals to pursue reconciliation with a fellow human being. What kind of thought life, what feeling tones and moods, what habits of body and mind, what kinds of deliberations and choices would you find in such a person? When you answer these questions, you will have a vision of the true "rightness beyond" that is at home in God's kingdom of power and love. Of

We forgive someone of a wrong they have done us when we decide that we will not make them suffer for it in any way. This

Apartheid has fallen, see, we die right next to each other now, in intimate proximity. It's just the living part we still have to work out.

Repentance is an internal shift

What might it look like if we lived as if we will not be endlessly divided from those who have brought us harm and whom we have failed as well?

I'm sure you despise me," she sobbed, looking up at him through tearful eyes. "Despise you?!" Langdon exclaimed. "I don't have the slightest idea who you are! All you've done is lie to me!" "I know," she said softly. "I'm sorry. I've been trying to do the right thing.

no hay que olvidar que, hace siglos, nuestra religión formó la Inquisición y mató a mujeres y niños inocentes en nombre de Dios. A causa de ello, hemos tenido que pedir perdón al mundo y también a nosotros mismos. Con el tiempo, sin embargo, hemos conseguido que las heridas cicatricen.

There must be that second, bobbing and darting in the aliveness of their shared history, unmistakable, glowing like a firefly in the darkness. If only they could pinpoint it and stop it there, right there, at the small but indelible spot that somehow they missed the first time around, if only, then perhaps their whole family could begin again.

think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be," wrote Joan Didion in her essay "On Keeping a Notebook," "whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4 a.m. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, and who is going to make amends. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

I don't think that we have any right to have a sort of generalized criticism, if not hatred, of the people who hated us, because then we only descend to the level of those people who persecuted us for so many years. New

Another plague year would reconcile all these differences; a close conversing with death, or with diseases that threaten death, would scum off the gall from our tempers, remove the animosities among us, and bring us to see with differing eyes than those which we looked on things with before.

tis evident death will reconcile us all; on the other side the grave we shall be all brethren again.

To give the history of a wicked life repented of, necessarily requires that the wicked part should be make as wicked as the real history of it will bear, to illustrate and give a beauty to the penitent part, which is certainly the best and brightest, if related with equal spirit and life.

Once when I was about 13, in an angry fit, I walked out of the house vowing I would never return. It was a beautiful summer day, and I walked far along lovely lanes, till gradually the stillness and beauty calmed and soothed me, and after some hours I returned repentant and almost melted. Since then when I am angry, I do this if I can, and find it the best cure.

Take it back, Ed. Take it all back.