Quotes About Reconciliation

Just like two and two always add up to four, kindness and forgiveness is always right, hate and revenge is always wrong.

Pedir perdón exige más valentía que disparar un arma, que accionar una bomba.

God did not change his mind about us on account of the cross or on any other account. He did not need to have his mind changed. He was never opposed to us. It is not his opposition to us but our opposition to him that had to be overcome, and the only way it could be overcome was from God's side, by God's initiative, from inside human flesh — the human flesh of the Son.44 The divine hostility, or wrath of God, has always been an aspect of his love.

The imagery of rescue and victory places the themes of reconciliation and forgiveness into another context altogether, where they are brought in under the heading of God acting to make right what has been wrong (rectification). Then, and only then, can the whole complex of ideas and images be located where it belongs, on the battlefield of Christ against the Powers. This is the overarching panorama against which to place the imagery of the Great Assize, or Last Judgment.

All the references to judgment in the Bible should be understood in the context of God's righteousness—not just his being righteous (noun) but his "making right" (verb) all that has been wrong.

When people have been hurt over and over, and rather than compassion or understanding you're given lectures about how it's really all your fault and that no one needs to make amends, you can lose your mind.

'Atonement' is one of my all-time favourite movies.

By annihilating somebody else in whatever way, then that person feels that they also have the ability to, then, restore the person.

Filipinos should need no longer kill fellow Filipinos. With peace, real progress can touch all corners of the country.

The idea is to go to bed every night with fewer enemies than you had in the morning.

You must show the world that you abhor fighting.

When I moved to Los Angeles, I figured I'm really going to make an attempt to become a real actor. And when I did that, I thought it was time for me to face my parents and tell them what I did.

First thing I said to him was, 'LeBron, you know this is true. We had five good years and one bad night'. Like a marriage that's good, and then one bad thing happens, and you never talk to each other again.

I try to fix things between the Asian community and the English community. There are always going to be racial things there, not getting on with each other and stuff. I have tried to break that barrier.

Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

All we ask is that we have peace with the whites. We want to hold you by the hand. You are our father.

I'm really busted up over this and I'm very, very sorry to those people in the audience, the blacks, the Hispanics, whites - everyone that was there that took the brunt of that anger and hate and rage and how it came through.

Life is supposed to be about love and good times, and so I've forgiven myself after paying the consequences of my bad decisions, and I'm ready to move forward and allow my life to be a light to others that it's never over, even for a person like me, who has lost a tremendous amount of respect among my peers, my fans, my friends and family.

I don't have a problem with Hulk Hogan. People say things and do things, and who am I to judge?

It is good to forget one's anger against one's wrongdoer, whoever he may be, for countless number of evils will quickly grow from this anger.

I have the sense that whoever here on earth we couldn't get along with, Jesus will make us roommates in Heaven.

I think that with everything I've done, in the end, whoever the central character is, they would find a way to forgive, because that's really important to me.

I have found that when I have attacked people personally, that's been a stupid mistake on my part. And so whoever I have attacked personally I apologize for.

I have never made a friend from whom I could not separate, and I have never made an enemy that I could not approach.