Quotes About Reconciliation

In every family, people fight, don't talk and then make amends.

I'm all for, almost like, a general amnesty program.

I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.

I was too aggressive. Too angry.

We did something this year that was not based on animosity.

I have no animosity against any living soul.

We can't afford to be killing one another.

How can you accept an apology from someone if they don't say what they did?

Sometimes all you're looking for is an apology.

Once I argue with somebody, I'm cool; I let it pass. I'm back to playing basketball.

I have made mistakes, but I feel that the people who have done things to me - they should be ashamed.

We're not ashamed to use the word 'peace.'

Is there any pleasure in anger? Yes, if the fire of my anger appeases the ashes of my friends.

It's hard to understand how we can harbor negative feelings toward someone we love when the two appear to sit at such competing ends of the spectrum. But negative emotion does, which is why even daughters of abusive mothers need to mourn the loss.

A la una de la mañana la ligera indigestión había desaparecido, y como pasa fatalmente con todos los matrimonios jóvenes que se han amado intensamente, una vez siquiera, la reconciliación llegó, tanto más efusiva cuanto hiriente fueron los agravios.

We are forgiven, that we may be like Him who forgives us.

It is forgiveness that sets a man working for God. He does not work in order to be forgiven, but because he has been forgiven, and the consciousness of his sin being pardoned makes him long more for its entire removal than ever he did before.

When I returned, I never once walked past the house where my mother, aunt, and I lved together...It was as if the past would judge me. The house would judge me. That merely looking at it would somehow cause me to calibrate my life, and in all aspects of usefulness I would come up short.

ho'oponopono (Hawaiian): Solving a problem by talking it out. After an invocation of the gods, the aggrieved parties sit down and discuss the issue until it is set right (pono means righteousness).

You hope that your teenage self would like and forgive your 50-year-old self.

Later, a very fat woman came in with a trolley and put a plate of something brown and foul-smelling on a table beside me. I couldn't imagine what I'd ever done to her, but whatever it was, it must have been bad. She obviously realised that she'd over-reacted, because half an hour later she came and took the plate away again.

My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play.

had to rebuke James and John for wishing to initiate eschatological vengeance (fire from heaven) on a village that would not receive Jesus (Luke 9:54). In our present situation in redemptive history, we are not to slaughter our enemies but to win them over with inexplicable deeds of tolerance and kindness (Matt. 5:39–42; Rom. 12:17–21). Now

The darkest mistakes can be forgiven, but they can never be undone.