Quotes About Reconciliation

Good," said Johnny, smiling happily. "Now we are all good friends again. In a war we must all be careful not to hurt each other's feelings.

Now I don't give a shit I lost him, David said. I don't care about the records. I just thought I did. I'm glad that he's all right and that I'm all right. We aren't enemies. I'm glad you told us, Thomas Hudson said. Thank you very much, Mr. Davis for what you said when I first lost him, David said with his eyes still shut. Thomas Hudson never knew what it was that Roger had said to him.

I'm sorry we haven't been friends. Everybody is friends when things are bad enough. I'm going to be friends from now on. We're all going to do a lot of things from now on, Thomas Hudson said. I wish from now on would start.

I'm sorry. I've got a nasty tongue. I never mean it when I say nasty things.

My dear, do you want forgiveness … or an explanation?

Infidelity hurts. But when we grant it a special status in the hierarchy of marital misdemeanors, we risk allowing it to overshadow the egregious behaviors that may have preceded it or even led to it.

With the revelation of an affair, suddenly the scoreboard of a marriage is lit up: the giving and the taking, the concessions and the demands, the allocation of money, sex, time, in-laws, children, chores. All the things we never really wanted to do but did in the name of love are now stripped of the context that gave them meaning.

forgiving doesn't mean giving the other a free pass. It's a gift one gives oneself.

Love and desire do not have to be mutually exclusive. Many couples find a way to integrate their contradictions without resorting to compartmentalization. But it starts with the understanding that we can never eliminate the dilemma. Reconciling the erotic and the domestic is not a problem to solve; it is a paradox to manage.

Did we really have to go through an affair just to be able to be truly honest with each other?" I hear this often and share their regret. But here's one of the unspoken truths about relationships: for many couples, nothing less extreme is powerful enough to get the partners' attention and to shake up a stale system.

Only when the betrayed partner feels emotionally met will he or she be able to listen to explanations without hearing them as justifications.

The Lamar Life stationary carried on its letterhead an oval portrait of Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, for whom the Company had been named: a Mississippian who had been a member of Congress, Secretary of the Interior under Cleveland, and a U.S. Supreme Court Justice, a powerful orator who had pressed for the better reconciliation of North and South after the Civil War.

Atunci, stimat? doamn?, cred c? nu mai încape nici o îndoial?, ne-am mai v?zut, iar dumneavoastr? sunteÅ£i chiar soÅ£ia mea.

I'll recognize her by the way she's trying to recognize me. Lost memories will guide her.

An apology is also an admission of guilt

For Reuter, it was the last act of the Great War and something which reduced, if it did not remove, the shame of defeat and surrender. The message, for those who chose to think about it, was that Germany was down but not out - defeated but not reconciled.

This man accepted his loss a long time ago, now he's just trying to make sure it's okay to put it all to rest.

After a victory there are no enemies, only men.'2

What are man and woman if not members of two very different and warring tribes Yet decade after decade, century after century, they attempt in marriage to reconcile and forge a union. Why I don't know. Biological imperative Divine law Or just a desire to connect to that mysterious other In any case, it's always struck me as a hopeful thing.

How can you love those who have stolen from you, assaulted or abused you, or tried to blow you up and completely destroy you? How can you forgive those who have kidnapped, tortured and killed someone you love? Yet this is where reconciliation has to begin.

Central to our faith is John 3:3: "No one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again." This passage is all about reconciliation. The deepest need of every human is to be brought into a right relationship with their Creator.

Let them call me a traitor and a coward. Because I, Yarpen Zigrin, coward, traitor and renegade, state that we should not kill each other. I state that we ought to live. Live in such a way that we don't, later, have to ask anyone for forgiveness.

forgiveness is an altogether different thing from trust or respect. Forgiveness is about the past. Trust and respect are about the future. Forgiveness will be in the hands of others and can be given to you, but trust and respect are in your own hands … and must be earned.

I will greet this day with a forgiving spirit. I will forgive even those who do not ask for forgiveness.