Quotes About Reconciliation

Me and my mum didn't see eye-to-eye for a lot of years, and I've never really felt connected with my dad, because he wasn't there.

I have promised on many occasions that I will build a consistent, predictable and sustainable cross-strait relationship.

I don't think previously strong relationships can remain strong after dispute by just sweeping the offensive stuff under the carpet, or by saying a puny sorry, or 'oh, that's all over now.' It doesn't work like that for me.

Previously known for its six syllables of sweetness and light, reconciliation has become the political fighting word of the year.

It's never clear to me why it's so hard for people to say sorry. It's a simple word, just two syllables and its positive impact is enormous.

I never thought that the child who was a famous symbol of war would one day be invited to become a symbol of peace.

The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.

But every person has to learn to accept what has happened in the past. Without bitterness. Or there is no point in continuing with life.

I thought you left me." Alice was standing in front of the bathroom looking all wounded. "Me?" I said. "No way.

You are allowed to make mistakes. And to be forgiven.

I'd burned bridges between us that had yet to be built.

I'm sorry, Molly, but people are always reminding me of what happened. It's going to be hard to explain to everyone that . . . that I still love you." Molly

Know I don't hate you Don't wanna fight you Know I'll always love you But right now I just don't like you Cause you took this too far

Who I am hates who I've been.

Do not confront me with my failures, I have not forgotten them. - Nico (Royal Tenenbaums)

In a truly global world, the renunciation of violent reprisal is bound to become, in a more and more obvious way, the indispensable condition of our survival.

So long as globalization was slow in coming, everyone hoped and prayed that it would come soon. The unity of the world's nations was one of the great triumphalist themes of modernism. World's fairs were staged in its honor, one after another. Now that globalization is here, however, it arouses more anxiety than pride. The erasing of differences may not portend the era of universal reconciliation that everyone confidently expected.

Yes, I said something to him, and then I cooled him off." "Cooled? By what process?" "I knocked him halfway across Broadway and took my wife." "You did?" Wolfe scowled at him. "What's the matter with your brain? Does it leak?

As I closed the door behind me he started to scorch me with an indignant look for being gone so long, but when he saw my face, which he knows better than I do, he abandoned it. 'Well?' he asked mildly.

As an American, I'd like to apologize-for everything.

God does not consume us in his wrath, but instead he consumes his wrath on himself by becoming our substitute, paying for our sins and giving us the gift of salvation.

I am sorry for you with all my heart. But you cannot blame us, for you came to kill us if you could.

the church is to find its identity and vocation by recognizing its role within the cosmic drama of God's reconciliation of the world to himself.

When the identity of the community is understood in these terms, participation in any form of ethnic division or hatred becomes unthinkable, and ethnic division within the church becomes nothing other than a denial of the truth of the gospel. 'That is why racism is a heresy. One of the church's most urgent pragmatic tasks in the 1990s is to form communities that seek reconciliation across ethnic and racial lines.