Quotes About Reconciliation

31 Hijo mío, respondió el padre, tú siempre estás conmigo, y todos los bienes míos son tuyos; 32 mas ya ves que era muy justo el tener un banquete, y regocijarnos, por cuanto este tu hermano había muerto, y ha resucitado; estaba perdido, y se ha hallado. 16

What I like about Christmas is that you can make people forget the past with the present.

To forgive does not mean we condone the misdeeds of another. We can dedicate ourselves to making sure they never happen again. But without forgiveness the world can never be released from the sorrows of the past…. Forgiveness is a way to move on.

without forgiveness the world can never be released from the sorrows of the past….

When you forgive, you free your soul. But when you say I'm sorry, you free two souls.

To forgive is to set someone free.

People with clenched fists can not shake hands.

True forgiveness is a self-healing process which starts with you and gradually extends to everyone else.

Real victories are those that protect human life, not those that result from its destruction or emerge from its ashes.

You can let hate, animosity and anger eat away at you, or you can let it go and begin again.

It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.

It is just as necessary to forgive ourselves as it is to forgive others, and the principal reason why forgiveness seemed so difficult is because we have neglected to forgive ourselves.

The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever-recurring song of retaliation.

Consider God's charity. Where else have we ever seen someone who has been offended voluntarily paying out his life for those who have offended him?

I believe that the yarn we spin is capable of mending the broken warp and woof of our life!

For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of His son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.

I can feel the apology in his fingers, and this takes the wind out of me, so I lean into him—just a little—and read over his shoulder. His hand is warm and I don't want to stop holding it. We

Forgiveness isn't about condoning what has happened to you or someone else's actions against you.

If you were mine, I would never have broken up with you, not in a million years.

Things have a way of settling back.

Sisters are supposed to fight and make up, because they are sisters and sisters always find their way back to each other. But the thing that scares me is that maybe we won't.

I know Josh and I will mend things, because we're neighbors, and that's how it goes with people you see a lot. They mend, almost on their own. But not so for Margot and Josh, with her so far away. If they don't talk now, the scar will only harden over time, it will calcify, and then they'll be like strangers who never loved each other, which is the saddest thought of all.

You treated her like garbage and now you decide you want her back.

I read his texts over and over. They're spaced minutes apart, so I know he must be fretting over whether I'm mad or not. I don't want to be mad. I just want things to go back to how they were before.