Quotes About Reconciliation

Forgiveness isn't an end in itself. The point of forgiveness is to remove the barrier that stands between us and God so that He can give us His Spirit and bring us into His everlasting family.

It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person to reconcile himself to the idea that after all God will not help him

A belief in God and a belief in astrology cannot be reconciled.

God has forgiven you; you'd be wise to do the same

God always forgives, always. But he asks that I forgive. If I don't forgive, in a certain sense I am closing the door to God's forgiveness.

When the Son of God comes to rescue us and bring us back to God, He does not find in us the ability to believe.

The invitation to repent is rarely a voice of chastisement but rather a loving appeal to turn around and to "re-turn" toward God.

The sun must not set upon anger, much less will I let the sun set upon the anger of God towards me.

Your fellowship with God flows freely when you're willing to forgive, but it gets blocked by unforgiveness.

Because of the Cross, God can be both just towards sin and yet mercifully justifying to sinners.

A PERSON WHO CANNOT FORGIVE HAS FORGOTTEN HOW GREAT A DEBT GOD HAS FORGIVEN THEM.

Whatever else we may say about it, the atonement fulfills the Jewish principle that only one who has been hurt can forgive. At Calvary, God chose to be hurt.

The idea that there is only one way to be reconciled with God has its origins in the Old Testament.

God does something to us as well as for us through the cross. He persuades us that He loves us.

The audience that I try to reach are members of what I call the church alumni association. Now they are people who have not found in institutional religion a God big enough to be God for their world.

Nothing in this low and ruined world bears the meek impress of the Son of God so surely as forgiveness.

Today, we come together to confess our need of God. Those perpetrators who took us on to tear us apart, it has worked the other way. It has backfired; it has brought us together.

Ask God for forgiveness. Seek forgiveness from those you have wronged. Forgive those who have wronged you. Forgive yourself.

I believe in something. But I don't believe that anything can hold a grudge for long enough to condemn its creation to eternal punishment. Nobody can hold a grudge that long, even God.

I had a lifelong quarrel with God, but in the end we made up.

Our sins are never too great for God to forgive.

We mirror God's mercy to us when we forgive another.

I am trying to get right with God. I'm sort of making a statement about the excessiveness.

If we repent, God always recycles our mistakes.