Quotes About Reconciliation

Reconciliation is not possible when one party asks the other to obliterate all signs of their relationship.

Without forgiveness there can be no future for a relationship between individuals or within and between nations.

Studies of reconciliation in primates have demonstrated that if the relationship value increases between two parties they are more willing to make peace.

As important as shared memories is the silent agreement that certain things never happened.

The determining factor in our relationship with God is not our past but Christ's past.

la única justicia de verdad efectiva es la que no representa una venganza, que llega después de los hechos para castigar, sino la que previene los males y se esfuerza por impedir que los hechos injustos ocurran.

I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members.

Let us then try what love can do to mend a broken world.

"You have of late stood out against your brother, and he hath taken you newly into his grace; where it is impossible you should take true root but by the fair weather that you make yourself: it is needful that you frame the season for your own harvest

Give me a bowl of wine, In this I bury all unkindness.

Take, O take those lips away,That so sweetly were forsworn;And those eyes, the break of day,Lights that do mislead the morn:But my kisses bring again, bring again,Seals of love, but seal'd in vain, seal'd in vain.

Blessed are the peacemakers on earth.

If we shadows have offended,Think but this, and all is mended,That you have but slumber'd hereWhile these visions did appear.

If any, speak; for him have I offended. I pause for a reply.

The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.

Jetzt sind wir in einer Situation, in der wieder zusammenwächst, was zusammengehört." ("Now we are in a situation where what belongs together, will grow back together.") Berlin radio interview, November 10, 1989 [the day after the de facto abolition of intra-German border controls by the East German government]

Say to the seceded States, "Wayward sisters, depart in peace."

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

After every war someone has to tidy up.

When the Lord Jesus died, all creation and the sins committed by the creation were terminated together.

Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive.

We will presently find that we are not so far apart after all, that the points on which we differ are few and the points on which we agree are many, and that if we only have the patience and the candor and the desire to get together, we will get together.

Since that time, I've had many similar moments, and I can never hear the words "family" and "home" without feeling that they sound strange, never simply hear them and let them go. When I stop to examine them, though, the words seem hollow, seem to rattle at my feet like empty cans.

I stayed at the port until the dawn broke, leaning over the railing, unable to reconcile myself to the idea that something that had never really begun was truly over.