Quotes About Reconciliation

Nie hab' ich die Wohltat der Beichte begriffen. Sie mag es für andere sein, und ich hoffe, daß sie es ist, aber die Mächte, denen ich unterstehe, vergessen und verzeihen nicht. Sie verstoßen endgültig das unbotmaßige Kind.

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

Once a woman has forgiven a man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

contending parties approach each other with respect. They ask about each other's needs, and in an atmosphere free of passions and prejudices, they reach a connection.

We will meet the forces of hate with the power of love. . . . We must say to our white brothers all over the South, We will match your capacity to inflict suffering with our capacity to endure suffering. . . . Bomb our homes and we will still love you. . . . We will so appeal to your heart and conscience that we will win you in the process.

The end is reconciliation, the end is redemption, the end is the creation of the Beloved Community

Apology is where behavioral change begins.

Apologizing is a magic move. Only the hardest of hearts will fail to forgive a person who admits they were wrong. Apology is where behavioral change begins.

A certain kind of hunger. To know what happened and at least ask why. Because the tikkun can't start until everyone asks what happened — not just the Jews but everybody.

transgressions one

He wanted to give her a chance to yell at him in private before he apologized.

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

It did not please me, either, that the Christians and the princes were driven, urged, and irritated into attacking the Turk and making war on him, before they amended their own ways and lived like true Christians.

Therefore neither discipline nor other virtues which can be invented by the will, nor works taken upon oneself, no matter how difficult, merit forgiveness of sins or reconcile us with God, but only faith in the Son of God.

Instead, we should remember to forgive others even when they have caused us suffering, as we often experience in this life. If we are unwilling to forgive, we can be certain that we won't be forgiven ourselves.

For it is in this way that our adversaries, the bishops and the pope, talk with us in our day, while they pretend a desire for concord, and seek to bring about doctrinal harmony.

A second basic fact that characterizes nonviolence is that it does not seek to defeat or humiliate the opponent, but to win his friendship and understanding.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation.

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

She had always been the voice of reason, had been the one who smoothed over quarrels and made sure that they remembered they were family. Stopped the fights before they began and reminded them that, at the end of the day, each other was all that any of them really had. As close as they were, they had all fallen out big time over the years. She had been the voice of reason.

A man's foes shall be they of his own household. Matthew 10:36

There is nothing worse, is there," she said, "than a past that has never been fully dealt with. One can convince oneself, that it is all safely in the past and forgotten about, but the very fact that we can tell ourselves that it is forgotten proves that it is not.

How does a mother tell her child that the memories he holds of his father are incorrect, that the truth does not even remotely resemble the memory? How does she tell him about the gaping holes in the recall that make it all a sham?