Quotes About Reconciliation

Remember Matthew 5:25 ("Make friends quickly with your opponent") and Matthew 5:44 ("Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you").

The goal of conflict resolution is to cultivate unity and peace, not to win or prove you are right.

Love your enemies. Pray for those who treat you badly (Luke 6:27–28).

Be quick to forgive (Matt. 18:21–35).

A brother offended is harder to win than a strong city, and contentions are like the bars of a castle" (Prov. 18:19 NKJV).

I don't believe in being vengeful or trying to send a message to someone. You waste your energy that way.

I am that prodigal son who wasted all the portion entrusted to me by my father. But I have not yet fallen at my father's knees. I have not yet begun to put away from me the enticements of my former riotous living.

You don't extinguish fire by adding more fire, you need water.

I'm still friendly with Dean. He still calls me on the phone from time to time. John Dean was fired and later ended up spending some time in prison for his role in Watergate.

Everyone deserves a second chance. That's just the way I am.

I don't have any issues with clowns - I feel like I owe them an apology in some ways.

Even if I could talk face to face with the pilot who dropped the bombs I would tell him, 'We cannot change history, but we should try to do good things for the present and for the future to promote peace.'

We want Black and White to be treated equally in this country, but we cannot heal this country, we can't save race relations, we can't accomplish equality, we can't serve justice, off of lies.

We cannot erase what has been done. We can apologize for it. We can express our outrage. We can say to the American people and to the people of the world, this is not our way and we do not condone it, but we cannot change it and we cannot erase it.

I'll take a redrum with a rellik please.

I just want my party back, please.

When I was somewhere between child and adult, my father left us. My first family broke apart, but this liberated me to create a new family as I pleased.

We've been at war with nature. Now we need to apologize and clean up.

I been trying to clean up my act with my children for a long time. And I pretty much got them all talking to me now. And they accept me as a humanoid again.

When the war closed, I buried the hatchet, and I won't fight now unless I'm put upon.

The Cold War has ended for America.

I want total peace for Colombia.

What I haven't apologised for is the original concept of seeking to bring justice to all South Africans through the concept of nation states.

I don't enjoy fighting with people. I don't enjoy having conflict.