Quotes About Reconciliation

To grant forgiveness to someone who has truly changed is not a way of condoning or forgetting his or her past crimes, but of acknowledging whom he or she has become.

Forgiveness is not something that you do for someone else; it's something you do for yourself, To forgive is not to condone, it is to refuse to continue feeling bad about an injury.

Forgiveness is really a gift to yourself - have the compassion to forgive others, and the courage to forgive yourself.

Pray you now, forget and forgive.

an act of forgiveness sets the victim apart from the perpetrator, who failed to act humanly towards the victim at the time he committed his crime.

Everything is ended if you forgive and forget.

Forgiveness changes the way we remember. It converts the curse into a blessing. Forgiveness indeed heals memories . . .

Forgiveness is the ultimate preventive medicine, as well as the greatest healer.

There is nothing that in the end, cannot be forgiven.

Forgiveness is essential as the ultimate detox

To withhold forgiveness is to take poison and expect the unforgiven to die.

You cannot learn a lesson of profound forgiveness unless you understand what it is to be wounded and forgive that which has wounded you.

...Forgiving is not having to understand. Understanding may come later, in fragments, an insight here and a glimpse there, after forgiving.

There is power in forgiveness.

Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil; With them forgive yourself.

Some forgive and forget, more forgive and remember, most forgive and remind.

I learned that true forgiveness includes total acceptance.

Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.

Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive.

Many people believe in turning the other cheek, especially when it is your cheek.

Without forgiveness, there is no future.

Forgiveness is commendable, but apply not ointment to the wound of an oppressor.

There is no condition for forgiveness.

When true forgiveness happens it is one of the most astonishing and liberating of the human experience.