Quotes About Reconciliation

When we make mistakes, we simply say sorry. And saying the words would cost us our pride most of the time.

I don't want revenge on the Taliban, I want education for sons and daughters of the Taliban.

I just sort of lost my head for a little while.

I ain't mad at anybody. I don't have any enemies.

I think the majority of the Liberian people want peace.

You can't make up for something you lost.

I would be ready to rejoin Nightwish if all the members of the band and the management team were changed.

I want to go back to Manchester and win the City fans back.

Matt was deeply touched that his estranged son would come to him for advice. He wasn't going to let it show, of course. A man had his pride.

I've loved you, as long as I've know you. Wanted you. Needed you. But I hit rock bottom when I had to let you go. I thought I lost you, life had no meaning for me -Wolf Patterson-

You owe me. You roasted my father.

How could anyone reconcile the agony of the Holocaust with Hasidism, a dancing religion that teaches love, joy, and celebration?

You have to make peace with the past or you can never move into the future

It's hard to move on if you don't forgive," he said. "It's like trying to dance with a lead weight on your shoulders. The anger can weigh you down forever.

This is a wonderful joke to play upon a prisoner, to promise forgiveness.

Equally astonishing, the Democrats have never admitted their racist history, never taken responsibility for what they did, never apologized for it, never paid one penny of restitution for their crimes.

Was he again -- I had never forgotten that overheard phrase of Eve's -- being kind to be cruel? I only knew I had been given back enough to live on. And dimly, dimly, I began to see a new Last Act to crown my play.

In these night recitations we create a space between things as we felt them at the time and as we speak them now. This is the space reserved for irony, sympathy and fond amusement, the means by which we rescue ourselves from the past.

First, we need to forgive our parents, our brothers, our sisters, our friends, and God. Once you forgive God, you can finally forgive yourself. Once you forgive yourself, the self-rejection in your mind is over. Self-acceptance begins, and the self-love will grow so strong that you will finally accept yourself just the way you are. That's the beginning of the free human. Forgiveness is key.

At the time, I didn't know what forgiveness meant. I wouldn't really know what forgiveness meant for another year, until my pastor, Rick McKinley, happened to spell it out in a sermon. He said that when you forgive, you bear the burden somebody has given you without holding them accountable.

The entire world is falling apart because nobody will admit they are wrong.

asking forgiveness involves giving power to the person you're seeking forgiveness from.

Again, she put her face in her hands and wiped away the years, then let them return and looked at him.

I forgave him, a hundred times over, and never on the basis of anything more than this: a look, a gesture, a certain tilt of his head.