Quotes About Reconciliation

Jesus is the Author of peace. He is God's peacemaker (Ephesians 2:13-14).

Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God

There is something unspeakably consoling in one's own smile. In that reflection, you can discern the face of yourself as a child and the face of yourself as a corpse. And in this moment, all the fundamental antinomies are reconciled--the sacred and the profane, the analyst and the analysand, the celebrated success and the abject failure. The pilot and the passenger. Writer and reader. Fiction and nonfiction. Past and present. And the mind that abides and the mind that is gone.

God loves the world. That's plain to see as we read His Word. Today, God loves the world through us, His Children of Grace. Christ is 'in' us and we are 'in' Christ. Christ is loving people and reaching out to them through us. He is making His appeal through us. He is reconciling people to Himself through us

Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive. C. S. LEWIS A

You think the dead really care about our lives? -Yeah, I think they do. I think they forgive us our sins. -I even think it's easy for them.

For soon the leaves, Having gone black, would fall, and the annulling snow Would pillow the walk, and we, with shovels in hand, would meet, Bow, and scrape the sidewalk clean. What else would there be This late in the day for us but desire to make amends And start again, the sun's compassion as it disappears.

arms around Pino. "Do you forgive me?

Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

It's funny how you can be mad at someone one moment and want to hug them the next.

Peter is ... adjusting. He's back in school, and he's doing quite well. I wish you could find it in your heart to forgive him." "I've got this funny resentful streak about people who try to kill me.

You win, you dirty evil butt-munch. I'll never not let you stay over again. Now let's go back to bed.

I have no intention of retaliating or looking backwards. We are going to forget the past and look forward to the future.

We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again.

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

There has been enough blood in the Balkans. Serbia is offering its hand. Let us turn to the future and not deal with the past.

There is no future without forgiveness

We cannot build the future by avenging the past.

As long as we fail to face up to the past and deal with it accordingly, the future will smack of corruption.

Let us give practical recognition to the injustices of the past,by building a future based on equality&social justice

If Turkey is prepared to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide, then its leaders can proceed immediately to direct dialogue with its counterparts in Armenia to define a common vision for the future.

When you haven't forgiven those who've hurt you, you turn back against your future. When you do forgive, you start walking forward.

Before I can face the future, I must first deal with the past.

No future without forgiveness.