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Quotes About Reconciliation

Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us.
~ Bible
If someone has offended you, start sowing forgiveness. You may need some yourself someday.
~ Joyce Meyer
Forgiveness is both a decision and a process.
~ Mark Driscoll
All religions remind us that actions have consequences for which guilt can and must be acknowledged, forgiveness humbly begged, reconciliation sought.
~ Kenneth L. Woodward
Forgive us as we forgive- we are offered forgiveness on no other terms. To refuse it is to refuse Gods mercy for ourselves.
~ C. S. Lewis
Being a human being without forgiveness is like being a guitarist without fingers or being the diva without a tongue.
~ Jimmy Santiago Baca
It may be infinitely worse to refuse to forgive than to murder, because
~ George MacDonald
You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched.
~ E. W. Howe
But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
~ William Golding
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
~ Saint Francis of Assisi
I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
When we judge, we are pushing people away; we are creating a wall, a barrier. When we forgive we are destroying barriers, we come closer to others.
~ Jean Vanier
Forgiveness doesn't excuse their actions. Forgiveness stops their actions from destroying your heart.
~ Karen Salmansohn
In families, there are no crimes beyond forgiveness.
~ Pat Conroy
The rule is: we cannot really forgive ourselves unless we look at the failure in our past and call it by its right name.
~ Lewis B. Smedes
I rest in the light of forgiveness.
~ Mary Anne Radmacher
The essence of forgiveness is absorbing pain instead of giving it.
~ Timothy Keller
We must not only speak about forgiveness and reconciliation, we must act on these principles.
~ Desmond Tutu
Let bygones be bygones.
~ Christina Rossetti
We forgive freely or we do not really forgive at all.
~ Lewis B. Smedes
It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
~ George Eliot
Forgiveness is the noblest vengeance.
~ H. G. Bohn
Forgiveness is all-powerful. Forgiveness heals all ills.
~ Catherine Ponder
We will know our forgiveness is complete when we have a genuine desire for the welfare of the people who have wronged us.
~ Virginia H. Pearce