Quotes About Reconciliation

Of all that we're asked to give others in this life, the most difficult to offer may be forgiveness.

Termagant!" he moaned after her. "Shrew! Harridan! All right, all right, you win, you, you . . . uh . . . virago, you spitfire . . ." He rubbed his head and sat up, grinned sheepishly. Lin made an obscene gesture at him without turning around.

Some of the dumbest things we do are done out of anger and bitterness when someone has wronged us.

My mother clutches at the collar of my shirt. I rub her back and feel her tears on my neck. It's been decades since our bodies have been this close. It's an odd sensation, like a torn ligament knitting itself back, lumpy and imperfect, usable as long as we know not to push it too hard.

And have you come to set me free finally, Govinda?" he asked. "Have I paid sufficiently for my theft?

The grandfather dropped his weapons and knelt before him. On his face was a look I could only interpret as hope. "And have you come to set me free finally, Govinda?" he asked.

They receded into mist, leaving me with another lesson: once mistrust has wounded it mortally, love can't be fully healed again.

They spoke of small things at first, since it was best, when reattaching threads, to begin with the easiest knots.

solved themselves one by one. The specialist was proven right and Yoko became pregnant soon after their reconciliation. With both their immigrant green cards now assured in the near future, the baby, robust and healthy, was born without complications. For the first time in four years they could settle down to become a complete, happy, and legally American

Every time he came back, apologetic, contrite, he'd start off being real nice. But he was as predictable as rain. No body knew when he'd go off, but at some point everybody knew he would.

Okay, okay," said Elliott. "I was wrong. Sorry, Katherine." "That's okay," said Katherine. "She stole your sandwich, too.

He was a lonely man, but he had long since reconciled himself to loneliness. Marriage required concessions which he was not prepared to make. He would have had to sacrifice time to small talk and to take an interest in things that bored him stiff. Marriage

We were thought by generations before us an eye for an eye and to love those that love us, but what if I tell you that true love has no boundaries brothers, it comes with peace, no sorrow and with no regrets

To be evangelical, then, means having one's life centered on the terrifically good message that God is reconciling the world to himself in Jesus Christ (2 Cor. 5:17–19).

you can't find peace until you find all the pieces. She wants to help Vivian find some kind of peace, elusive and fleeting as it may be.

Forgive me if I'm wrong. But are you-were you-did you come here on a train from New York about ten years ago?

It is rare for even adult children to abandon their mother, regardless of how many times their mother has abandoned them.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. —Golda Meir

when someone apologizes, you have to forgive them.

Perhaps, after all, the most beautiful words in the language are I'm sorry.

Contrary to what many people think today, punishment as such is not what satisfies the demands of justice. Justice is satisfied by repentance, restoration, and renewal. Punishment serves as a mechanism for helping to promote such restoration.

If the dead could speak there would be no more war. Heinrich Böll; "The Stories of Heinrich Böll"

Of course he [God] will forgive me; that's his business.

Do we identify with a criminal in that we too secretly long to be judged? Popularly, being 'judgemental' is ill thought of and resented. But what if we want our deeds, our natures, our very souls to be summed up and evaluated? A line to be drawn under our acts to date? A punishment declared, amends made, the slate wiped clean? A born-again Christian, trying to explain his new sense of freedom, once said to me, "All my debts are paid".