Quotes About Reconciliation

Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back. You're done. It doesn't necessarily mean that you want to have lunch with the person. If you keep hitting back, you stay trapped in the nightmare...

Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.

Hugging himself, Oscar leaned against the pantry wall. For two days all he had wanted was for Caleb to come back, and now he was back and Oscar had made a mess of things: he had angered half the customers and confused the other half, and the coin boxes did not look as they should, and [rich, noble] people were complaining about him, and he couldn't look at anybody, and [redacted] was dead, and Oscar was odd. 'What if he doesn't keep me?

Wie Annie Schmidt altijd als lief en aardig heeft ervaren, zal zijn mening grondig moeten herzien.

He who forgiveth, and is reconciled unto his enemy, shall receive his reward from God; for he loveth not the unjust doers.

Im generally of the view that we should know the names of those who enacted and justified imperial power - but only if the glorifying can be supplemented with plaques that tell us the shameful histories of, for example active participation in the slave trade or highly successful and profitable lives extracted from slave plantations.

All things can be forgiven if we can progress.

When a man has been consistently battering his wife, he shouldn't expect a bouquet of roses from her the morning after he promises to stop.

I remember, the first time I gave Dad a proper hug, it was big.

Only the political process offers the real prospect of a united Ireland at peace with itself.

I love when a protagonist and antagonist can find common ground.

We pay millions of pounds to separate Catholic and Protestant children, and even more millions on attempting to bring them together as adults. You can't make someone fear another person if they shared a desk for seven years.

Protesting is good, but healing is better. We need to see America heal.

I've done a lot of things in my life that I'm not proud of.

If you don't feel apologetic for slavery, if you don't feel apologetic for colonialism, if you feel proud of it then say that.

We'll buy back our own harm with what is most dear to us.

Tis dreadful for words and strife to happen between brothers, when they fall into dispute.

But I wish to give you a wise piece of advice. When a friend is enraged with a man his friend, having met him face to face, let him fix his eyes on his friend's eyes, this only ought he to consider, the end for which he is come, but to have no recollection of former grievances.

for to Thebes this would be a reproach, if through fear of the Mycenæan spear I should give up my sceptre for this man to hold. But he ought, my mother, to effect a reconciliation, not by arms: for speech does every thing which even the sword of the enemy could do.

How dreadful a thing, mother, is the enmity of relations, having means of reconciliation seldom to be brought about!

Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time.

Sometimes she speaks of 'the past' as people speak who have been in prison. But you never know whether they refer to the crime or the imprisonment or the whole experience.

He doesn't want any trouble with ANYbody.

I'm going to fix everything just the way it was before,' he said, nodding determinedly. 'She'll see.