Quotes About Reconciliation

Kiss and make up--but too much makeup has ruined many a kiss.

I suppose it is possible that one day we will meet again and it will feel as if nothing ever happened between us.

I suppose it is possible that one day we will meet again and it will feel as if nothing ever happened between us. This seems unimaginable, but the fact is that it happens all the time. "No whiteness (lost) is so white as the memory / of whiteness," wrote Williams. But one can lose the memory of whiteness, too.

This is a different man, surely, from the one who ordered Contrari's death. It cannot have been him. This is her husband, who loves her, or seems to; that was the ruler of Ferrara. They are the same man, they are different men, the same yet different.

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

There can be no reconciliation without a reorganization of power.

Only the victor had the potential of transcending an earlier opposition between the two, by defining both as survivors of the civil war. To transcend the terms of the earlier opposition is to forge a new community of survivors of the civil war.

The prerequisite to life is not power. The prerequisite to cohabitation, reconciliation, and a common political future is to give up the monopoly of power.

All roads lead to you, even those I took to forget you.

What would happen if I were to become A child again? And I returned to you… and you returned to me.

Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.

Three years ago the Government announced the creation of Reconciliation Place, and said that it would include a memorial to those removed from their families. However, they refused to include any of those who were removed in the design of their own memorial.

To the former child migrants, who came to Australia from a home far away, led to believe this land would be a new beginning, when only to find it was not a beginning, but an end, an end of innocence - we apologise and we are sorry. To the mothers who lost the maternal right to love and care for their child - we apologise, and we are sorry.

Wie überwinden wir das Böse? Indem wir es vergeben ohne Ende. Wie geschieht das? Indem wir den Feind sehen als den, der er in Wahrheit ist, als den, für den Christus starb, den Christus liebt.

Ohne Christus ist Unfriede zwischen Gott und den Menschen und zwischen Mensch und Mensch. Christus ist der Mittler geworden und hat Frieden gemacht mit Gott und unter den Menschen.

Der Raum der Kirche ist nicht dazu da, um der Welt ein Stück ihres Bereiches streitig zu machen, sondern gerade um der Welt zu bezeugen, daß sie Welt bleibe, nämlich die von Gott geliebte und versöhnte Welt.

en la raíz del odio se han injertado las del amor y la reconciliación, que, entrelazadas, son mucho más profundas, «porque la del odio alcanza, tarde o temprano, el sedimento calizo que impide su crecimiento, mientras que las del amor y la reconciliación crecen en todas direcciones y sin impedimento alguno porque las riega el Dios fraterno y venturoso».

Ao amor temos que ir já limpos, sem cobrar nem fazer pagar antigas dívidas, produto de anteriores equívocos.

The prodigal son returned home to his father's house not for any noble motive but because he was hungry and down on his luck. Nevertheless, his father welcomed him home with open arms, without reproach. This is the image of God that Jesus reveals to us and we are invited to believe.

the practice of solitude had given him a love for it, as happens with every big thing which we have begun by fearing, because we knew it to be incompatible with smaller things to which we clung, and of which it does not so much deprive us as it detaches us from them. Before we experience it, our whole preoccupation is to know to what extent we can reconcile it with certain pleasures which cease to be pleasures as soon as we have experienced it.

I called to mind the noble glance, kind and compassionate, of that Albertine, her plump cheeks, the coarse grain of her throat. It was the image of a dead woman, but, as this dead woman was alive, it was easy for me to do immediately what I should inevitably have done if she had been by my side in her living body (what I should do were I ever to meet her again in another life), I forgave her.

While yet we live, scarce one short hour perhaps, Between us two let there be peace, both joining, As joined in injuries, and enmity Against a foe by doom express assigned us, That cruel serpent.

Act of Grace my former state; how soon Would highth recal high thoughts, how soon unsay What feign'd submission swore: ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void. For never can true reconcilement grow Where wounds of deadly hate have peirc'd so deep: Which