Quotes About Reconciliation

When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends."

It is easier to forgive an enemy than it is a friend.

Learn to ask for forgiveness for the wrongs you've done because you will not die if you swallow your pride.

If you've mistreated someone, reach out and apologize to them. You won't have closure until you apologize for the wrong things you've done.

War would end if the dead could return.

Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship.

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and to discover the prisoner was you.

Too often they don't realize what they have until it's gone. ...they're too stubborn to say, 'Sorry, I was wrong' they hurt the ones closest to their hearts, and we let the most foolish things tear us apart

All too often, we sanitize and simplify forgiveness, when in fact it's an arduous, exhausting task---messy, risky, and unpredictable.

Aprender a perdonarse es un paso imprescindible para sanar las heridas que hay en nuestra alma.»

El olvido está tan lleno de memoria / que a veces no caben las remembranzas / y hay que tirar rencores por la borda / en el fondo el olvido es un gran simulacro / nadie sabe ni puede / aunque quiera /olvidar

Pedir perdón es humillante y no arregla nada. La solución no es pedir perdón, sino evitar los estallidos que hacen obligatorias las excusas

Of all things we mortals are called upon to do, the most difficult is forgiveness; in order to truly do it, you will probably have to behave as if you already have forgiven for quite a while before you have actually done so.

Maybe she would remember who he was, and maybe she would come back.

I tried to tell him all the things I hadn't told him before. How it was both our faults, how I'd taken over with the kids and not let the two of us be in that together. Mostly, I wanted him to understand the real reason I'd thought our marriage was over. It was over because we forgot to stay in love. Both of us.

If we repent, God always recycles our mistakes.

Restitution: Find some way to make amends, at least partially.

Requesting forgiveness: Don't do this immediately, because actions speak louder than words. To truly earn forgiveness, you need to sustain your corrective actions until they become part of who you are. At this point—and not before—go back to the person you've hurt and say, "Are you able to forgive me for hurting you?

Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note—torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one." —HENRY WARD BEECHER

We forgive when we no longer need to blame; we forget when we no longer need to remember.

An ounce of apology is worth a pound of resentment and a ton of "acting out by underperforming.

dead. We sinned. We blew it over and over. What was God's part? He did it all. He chose us, made us alive, lavished his grace on us, started us, and will complete what he started.

From here on in, I rag nobody

All rivers run full to the sea; those who are apart are brought together; the lost ones are redeemed; the dead come back to life; the perfectly blue days that have begun and ended in golden dimness continue, immobile and accessible; and, when all is perceived in such a way as to obviate time, justice becomes apparent not as something that will be, but something that is.