Quotes About Reconciliation

Our history is an inevitable component of our being. One thing only can release us from the grip of our history. That one thing is forgiveness.

If you don't learn about each other, you do not understand each other, and you don't hide warts and all, both sides, then you're forever going to repeat history.

A great nation does not hide its history. It faces its flaws and corrects them.

With malice toward none with charity for all with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right let us strive on to finish the work we are in to bind up the nation's wounds.

We want to take good tidings home to our people, that they may sleep in peace.

In terms of distance, the prodigal's pigsty is the farthest point from home; in terms of time, the pigsty is the shortest distance to the father's house.

Go home all you boys who fought with me and help build up the shattered fortunes of our old state

True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.

There's nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife.

Going home must be like going to render an account.

And it took me, since I was 17 and left home, running from God, to now, as a 30-year-old man, when I honestly feel like I've come full circle and my heart's finally in the right place.

… It is not healing to see your childhood home, but it helps you measure whether you are broken, and how and why, assuming you want to know.

Whenever we forgive, in small ways at home, or in great ways between nations, we free ourselves from the past.

I loved Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi. Its about a first-generation African family living in America that has to return home to Nigeria when their estranged father passes away.

Not one of us can rest, be happy, be at home, be at peace with ourselves, until we end hatred and division.

Do not keep the slanderer away, treat him with affection and honor: Body and soul, he scours all clean, babbling about this and that.

Penalty is different than punishment, because it offers something with which to regain honor.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

... sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.

I hope the day that all the Christians are one. This is my dream.

You hope that your teenage self would like and forgive your 50-year-old self.

I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone.

We're already separated that's official but there's still a window of hope left open that perhaps someday we could give things another try.

I always hold out hope. Mediation is an opportunity for each side to present their case, and for us to get back to the table again.