Quotes About Reconciliation

I can see being angry with folks. Shoot, I'd about hang Chess on the laundry line any day of the week, but I don't shun him. Shunning's no way to get over and done with your fussing. It just drives in a sword that won't come out unless the person holding it pulls first.

I need you, Charlotte, I need you like air, like light. Without you there's only darkness. There's emptiness. Tell me what you want me to do. I'd wait forever for you. Just don't tell me you don't want me back.

My forgiveness had not solved my latent hatred or self-hatred.

Everyone tells me that I should forgive her. But how can I forgive someone who has never asked to be forgiven; somebody who's never even acknowledged any wrongdoing, someone who continues to do the same thing?

I can't let her hurt me again. My pain it too great. I can't forgive her.

How do you forgive someone who has never asked to be forgiven; somebody who has never even acknowledged any wrongdoing, someone who continues to do the same thing? How do you forgive an offender and still protect yourself from re-injury?

It is my experience that you must heal in order to forgive.

One of the most dangerous things about forgiveness is that it undercuts your ability to let go of your pent-up emotions.

Forgiveness is not a commodity that can be handed out. It is a relationship that must be entered into. — Karl Rahner

Ann said, "My father died when he was seventy-seven, still unable to forgive his mother.

Forging peace between people always outweighed the truth.

If we could read the past histories of all our enemies we would disregard all hostility for them.

Rick's dream, though he seldom described it as such, was to someday tell a story so good that the people who heard it simply wouldn't want to kill wolves anymore.

The man who forgives is far stronger than the man who fights.

Of all the events which constitute a person's biography, there is scarcely one… to which the world so easily reconciles itself as to his death.

To forgive or not to forgive... are those my only choices?

Ultimate hope and daily grumpiness are not reconcilable.

Não estou acostumado com a arte da amizade: as provocações, as brigas e as reconciliações. Por exemplo: Por quantos dias uma pessoa deve ficar alterada se um amigo solta um comentário insensível ou demonstra deslealdade? Esses são números que eu deveria anotar no meu registro.

Years had passed, but we were still arguing about the same stuff. These patterns repeat themselves, with parents and children—that's another reason I went to India. If I was going to have a family, I wanted it to be totally different from the one I'd had.

If Jesus Christ treated me like you do, I'd drive in the nails myself.

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

Reconciliation means working together to correct the legacy of past injustice.

If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.

As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison.