Quotes About Reconciliation

Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. Forgiving means abandoning your right to pay back the perpetrator in his own coin.

Forgiveness is no longer an option but a necessity for healing.

You have to say I am forgiven again and again until it becomes the story you believe about yourself.

Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.

The rebels will be thinking about retaliation, what we have to do is stop; stop and transform it into a spiral of forgiveness and reconciliation.

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

When you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. You bear it yourself. All forgiveness, then, is costly.

There is hope in forgiveness

The ultimate proof of total forgiveness takes place when we sincerely petition the Father to let those who have hurt us off the hook—even if they have hurt not only us, but also those close to us.

A life lived without forgiveness is a prison.

Forgiving is not about forgetting, it's letting go of the hurt

Forgiveness is something that we are often asked to grant and very few of us ever have the roadmap of how to get from the pain that we have experienced to being able to forgive someone.

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory.

A grudge is like a cesspool; forgiveness like a flowing river.

Forgiveness is the scent that the rose leaves on the heel that crushes it.

Forgiving is not forgetting. It is remembering and letting go.

If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.

There's forgiveness if you ask forgiveness, you truly repent, and you do make an honest effort not to do that anymore.

Once you experience forgiveness, your outer world changes.

Forgiveness is created by the restitution of the abuser; of the wrongdoer. It is not something to be squeeeeeezed out of the victim in a further act of conscience-corrupting abuse.

Perpetrators who receive the gift of forgiveness are given a chance to change

Inner Forgiveness is therapeutic. If you do not Forgive you cannot be Internally Healed. Forgiving heals the Soul.

Without white South Africa realizing what it had done - and on the basis of that realization having the courage to ask for forgiveness - there can really be no significant movement.