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Quotes About Reconciliation

Forgiveness is healing. Especially forgiving yourself
~ Alyson Noel
David did not pay for his forgiveness. He did pay for his unforgiveness.
~ Johnny Hunt
That you were once unkind befriends me now, And for that sorrow, which I then did feel, Needs must I under my transgression bow, Unless my nerves were brass or hammered steel.
~ William Shakespeare
Forgiveness is like a great act of compassion. That it was done not because someone deserved it, but because they needed it.
~ Joss Whedon
If you want to be forgiven, you have to extend forgiveness, even to people who aren't smart enough to ask for it.
~ William J. Clinton
There is only one path which leads to the house of forgiveness - that of understanding.
~ Myrtle Reed
She eventually forgave him, because she understood him.
~ Whitney Otto
The most beautiful form of compromise is forgiveness.
~ John Armstrong
Forgiveness indeed heals memories
~ Henri Nouwen
Forgiveness is the finding again of a lost possession.
~ Friedrich Schiller
Having looked the past in the eye, having asked for forgiveness and having made amends, let us shut the door on the past—not in order to forget it but in order not to allow it to imprison us.
~ Desmond Tutu
How shall I love the sin yet keep the sense And love the offender yet detest the offence?
~ Alexander Pope
If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.
~ Abraham Lincoln
There is no point in burying the hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.
~ Sydney Harris
There are things that can be fixed with an apology and things that can't.
~ Unknown
Forgiveness is not about forgetting, Mack. It is about letting go of another person's throat.
~ William Paul Young, The Shack
Now here's a good one:you're lying on your deathbed.You have one hour to live.Who is it, exactly, you have neededall these years to forgive?
~ Louise Penny, A Fatal Grace
Forgiveness leads to healing of wounds and restoration health.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
We have to figure out how to let go, and forgive. This is our job
~ Laura Dave, The Divorce Party
Forgiveness spares the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
~ Hannah More
Forgiveness is a gift to the one who is hurting.
~ Unknown
Over time, we commit acts with intentions, either good or bad, that require forgiveness.
~ Emily Thorne
How Forgiveness Helps Us Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again what is soiled is again made clean.
~ Dag Hammarskjold
He arches his back because when you forgive, the body says, "Thank God.
~ Unknown