Quotes About Reconciliation

I think that in many ways, some of those who did vote for Trump are sorry that they did so. But the hope, at least, is that we have a chance to make up for those kinds of mistakes.

When people screw up, give them a second chance.

God is a God of second chances

Therefore with idle hands and head I sit In late December before the fire's daze Punished by crimes of which I would be quit.

Hark the herald angels sing "Glory to the new-born king." Peace on earth and mercy mild God and sinners reconciled!

How often could things be remedied by a word. How often is it left unspoken.

At this rate I never want to talk to you again. Stay mad at me, Allie. It allows us to communicate in other ways.

When we speak quietly one to another things somehow get settled.

it's important to make sure that we're talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.

Without rebuilding the confidence between parties, you will never succeed.

One who is truly confident is able to apologize.

I spent many years not knowing where my dad was... Not knowing if my dad was alive, even. He turned up when I was 16 out of the blue.

I imagined the hard things that pulled us apart Will never again, sir, tear us from each other's hearts.

If I've been dating someone for, say, five months, and she cheats on me, I don't think it would be worth it. I'm not committed enough to the situation to give her a second chance.

An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed in retaliation.

You know, the purpose of reconciliation is to avoid the filibuster. The filibuster is an effort to talk something to death.

Violence and war lead only to death.

it, making amends to father is hard work—all that hacking through the undergrowth of stale pathology with the machete of one's guilt.

Whatever else we may say about it, the atonement fulfills the Jewish principle that only one who has been hurt can forgive. At Calvary, God chose to be hurt.

In my lifelong study of the Bible I have looked for an overarching theme, a summary statement of what the whole sprawling book is about. I have settled on this: "God gets his family back." From the first book to the last the Bible tells of wayward children and the tortuous lengths to which God will go to bring them home. Indeed, the entire biblical drama ends with a huge family reunion in the book of Revelation.

Ungrace does its work quietly and lethally, like a poisonous, undetectable gas. A father dies unforgiven. A mother who once carried a child in her own body does not speak to that child for half its life. The toxin steals on, from generation to generation.

recall Gandhi's remark that if you take the principle "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" to its logical conclusion, eventually the whole world will go blind and toothless.

I could no more pray the Our Father, I could no longer call myself a Christian, if I refuse to forgive. Humanly speaking, I cannot do it, but God will give us his strength!

A cease-fire between human beings depends upon a cease-fire with God.