Quotes About Reconciliation

Let me give a tip. You can't be right with God if you are not right with others.

Speak well of your enemies; after all you made them.

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him your friend but remember an old one will never become your friend.

To forgive someone will definitely help you for not being hurt yourself anymore.

Upon the offender's repentance (v. 29; Luke 17:3), God requires us to forgive from the heart (v. 35).

that you should forgive those who have wronged you if for no other reason than to benefit yourself, and that your forgiveness will probably benefit you more than those you forgive. This is unbiblical.

We must forgive others because we are not our own. Since God commands us to forgive people when they repent, we have no right to withhold forgiveness when they repent: "So watch yourselves. 'If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him'" (Luke 17:3).

Forgiveness belongs to anyone who has faith – this is not the mere appearance of piety, but a sincere heart that has been transformed by God's grace, and that freely extends forgiveness to others (v. 25; also Matthew 18:21-35).

Remember the height from which you have fallen!

We were at one time also "alienated from God and were enemies in [our] minds" (Colossians 1:21), but God has reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ (v. 22). In contrast, non-Christians are "separate from Christ…without hope and without God in the world" (Ephesians 2:12).

Try to remember. Have you ever felt mercy in your heart where there was once hatred? Peace where there was once turmoil? Love where there was once greed and lust? Humiliation where there was once self-righteousness?

E eu me deixarei ir não sem reflexão, mas sem insistir em lamentar coisas que poderiam ter acontecido.

Se estes senhores daqui protestam contra mim, eu também protesto contra eles, e só lhes resta me ressarcir por perdas e danos amigavelmente, enfim, só lhes resta devolver-me o que perderei por sua culpa e ignorância.

To my letter of the day before yesterday I want to add that yesterday I had a letter from Rappard, and that our quarrel is completely made up, that he has sent me a sketch of a large picture of a brickyard which he is painting.

I know you think this merciless to those at home. And yet I tell you that at times Father himself felt vaguely that he had made a mistake and had taken the wrong side. But he tried to reconcile irreconcilable things, and...he had not as much firmness of character as he seemed

God might never have wanted blacks to be hauled to this country as slaves, but now that we're here, I know for certain he wants the hatin' to stop. It's our job to make sure it happens, at least in our own hearts. I reckon those are the only ones we can really answer for.

A conquering king will banish from his breast hatred towards one whom he no longer fears.

On vit bien (...) que la France n'était pas réconciliée avec elle-même, ce qui n'étonne pas quand lorsqu'on pense que c'est le seul pays au monde à avoir une fête nationale et un hymne national qui célèbrent la division et non l'union.

The only true way to forgive someone, it seems to me, is to forget what they have done to you and, in turn, forget them. Whether that is possible is another question.

Bad dog, Bailey," the boy said crossly. I was astounded. Bad dog? Me? They had accidentally locked me in the garage and forgotten about me and left me there all day, but I was willing to forgive them. Why were they scowling like that and shaking their fingers at me?

That's what's so wonderful about dogs," her mother said. The car stopped, and Patsy reached an arm back to stroke my head. "His allergies were awful, but he doesn't hold any kind of a grudge, does he? He's trying to tell you not to feel bad. He's forgiven us already. Wouldn't the world be a better place if people forgave each other as easily as dogs do?

Sir, no man's enemy, forgiving allBut will his negative inversion, be prodigal.

The nightingales are sobbing in The orchards of our mothers, And hearts that we broke long ago Have long been breaking others; Tears are round, the sea is deep: Roll them overboard and sleep.

But if you deem them worthy, people deserve a second chance.