Quotes About Reconciliation

Do not burn bridges, put a toll on either end.

89) Dudley And Harry Remained Friends Despite Harry and Dudley not getting along at all when they were kids, they ended up seeing each other several times after the Battle of Hogwarts. They would keep in touch and see one another whenever they were in close proximity of each other. The children hated it, but Dudley and Harry felt an unspoken obligation to be family in one way or another.

Sometimes you go so far in your life, you can't get back though you know it's not really your life.

Perhaps one of the lessons of any nation's history is that the people are indeed responsible for the sins of the fathers; they are not guilty, but responsible for setting right the wrongs done in the past.

Non-retaliation, for Paul, is not an option for peacemakers in Christ; rather, it is the way of Christ.

Then a white man raised his hand and said that, in those days, he had been involved in the Ku Klux Klan. Immediately after that, a black man sitting next to him—but a stranger to him—raised his hand and said that he had been a member of the Black Panthers! The two of them laughed and hugged while the audience cheered. That is how Jesus deals with racial hatred and prejudice, by changing the heart and bringing reconciliation, not by violent confrontation.

He suddenly appeared on the world's doorstep, inspiring pan-national awe and reconciliation--a liberal German Jew who clung to his Swiss citizenship and renounced violence.

Perhaps we really are surrounded by the past, made prisoners of it. No matter how far we travel, how hard we try to forget, the scarred tree forever stands by the side of the road, if only in our minds. The only way to drive by is to set the past straight, once and for all, by remembering.

I think this galaxy would be a whole lot nicer and more pleasant place to live if we all just stop killing one another. Who's with me on this?" A few chuckles and a couple of faux cheers were the response. "You're a visionary," I-Five told him. "Float it past Palpatine, see what he thinks," Uli suggested.

Sharing meals together forced us to figure out how to be the body of Christ reconciled across racial, ethnic, and class lines.

I'm really busted up over this and I'm very, very sorry to those people in the audience, the blacks, the Hispanics, whites - everyone that was there that took the brunt of that anger and hate and rage and how it came through.

I know I should have ignored her. I should have called. Many times I almost did. I got as far as picking up the phone. Sometimes I even dialed your parents' number but then I wondered what I'd say to you. We had left it too long. How would we ever get around the silence, which was like an elephant sitting in the room?

Book of Isaiah, "He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

How come someone always saves the people who try to kill themselves and then makes them tell everyone how sorry they are for ruining their evenings?

war alone is not the answer. We must also fight for the hearts and minds of those who would do us harm.

Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterwards forms itself into laws

We reject liberal ideology because it's incapable of furnishing meaning, a way to reconcile the individual with his fellow man in a community that one could qualify as human.

Para comemorar devidamente a reconciliação do homem consigo mesmo, é preciso antes de mais nada acabar com os mundos remotos, os céus e supostos lugares de residência das ideias, das essências, das divindades. Esses espaços são míticos, sonhados e supostos. Não têm nenhuma existência, a não ser fantasística.

It takes someone really brave to confess they're wrong and try to make it right" -Pete

while you try to reconcile the place before you with the place in your memory,

Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy civic-military and political-military relationships.

When we refuse to forgive others of their wrongs - even blaming them for our circumstances - we cripple ourselves from moving forward.

Why don't you just call her? Mitch turned to find Lance standing in the doorway, arms folded across his chest. He sighed and asked is it that obvious? Lance grinned. You look just like I felt when Kate left me. And trust me when I say, if she loves you, she'll forgive whatever you did. (Chapter 13)

Any reasoning that leaves somebody alone to wallow in their own guilt went against the gospel of reconciliation.