Quotes About Reconciliation

Sooner or later, unless there is a readjustment, there will come a riotous, wicked, murderous day of atonement.

As he waved at grizzled old Southerners, and they in turn waved the Stars and Stripes back at him, Roosevelt reflected that only thirty-three years before these men had been enemies of the Union.44 It took war to heal the scars of war; attack upon a foreign power to bring unity at home. But what future war would heal the scars of this one?

When a public quarrel is envenomed by private injuries, a blow that isn't mortal or decisive can be productive only of a short truce which allows the unsuccessful compeditent to sharpen his arms for a new encounter.

Ralph's people in Washington were not as bad as he had always thought. The drunkard had found God a week after a Fourth of July and had said good-bye to the bottle for good. Washington was good to the old man's bones.

Presumably those who enjoyed inflicting cruelty could hardly believe their luck and set about popularizing the superstition that their victims could only achieve peace of mind by forgiving them.' 'You

If you know you have been forgiven, you will forgive and reconcile with others.

There was probably so much blood being shed in different parts of the country that morning, the blood of militiamen at the hands of former victims, the blood of former victims at the hands of militiamen battling for their lives. Maybe the water could be a cleansing offering to the gods on behalf of all the dead, no matter what their political leaning had been.

Then everyone would retreat for a nap, after which we would have coffee and cake, sometimes an argument.

È una cosa che succede: le grandi amicizie e i grandi legami dell'adolescenza sono difficili da riannodare in seguito, anche tra fratello e sorella. Ci rimasero malissimo tutti e due, ognuno ebbe l'impressione che l'altro fosse cambiato e che ci fosse qualcosa che non andava.

Coming back was part of the price

I only came to give you a second chance.

You'll leave. And then one day you'll come back, and everything that you once loved about the place will drive you a little bit crazy.

You'll leave. And then one day you'll come back, and everything you used to love about the place will drive you a little bit crazy.

Whenever possible, he fought against the idea of collective guilt, even though it was an unpopular stand immediately after the war.

As President Lincoln in his final days acknowledged, the only way to win and preserve a peace is to afford the loser some dignity.

To understand is to forgive, even oneself.

We are approaching again the Great Lent—the time of repentance, the time of our reconciliation with God. Repentance is the beginning and also the condition of a truly Christian life.

There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.

I thought you were gone forever, I thought you'd walked away from everything, because I failed, because I destroyed the only thing that ever mattered to me. I waited for you to come, but you didn't.

Life is so fragile that any parting can be eternal. We can never be sure that we will still have an opportunity to ask for forgiveness and be forgiven.

Surely until all of us own and honor one another's dead, until we have admitted to our murders and forgiven one another and ourselves for what we have done, there can be no truce, no dignity and no peace.

I don't understand," she admitted at last. "You were trying to kill each other fifteen years ago, and you're friends now. Don't you even argue about the North and the South and who was right?" "Johnny Reb" laughed. "What's it to a soldier the right and the wrong of it all? He's there for the fighting, that's what he likes. Doesn't matter who you're fighting, long as he gives you a good fight.

We must make sure we confess our own sin and shortcomings before approaching our adversary with his.

Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you. Ephesians 4:32 NIV