Quotes About Reconciliation

Sometimes I feel people can move past what they've grown up around and their surroundings while in a place and some people need closure after they've left and then coming back. I've seen it happen with people I knew growing up that hated each other, and then years later you go home and you see them walking down the street and they have babies.

All I want to say is this: Wouldn't the world be a better place if there is peace?

Certainly, we are all on the shoulders of those who fought for our country. But the first peoples of this land justifiably might feel bitterness.

Personally, I can't take the blame for what politicians did in 1982. I can't take on some kind of revenge or change history. I want to beat England because I want to win every game I play, but not because we went to war in 1982 or because we played against each other in 1998.

I would give up everything rather than have the blood of white men upon the hands of my people.

For a murderous blow let murderous blow atone.

He could have made it right with the book. But he hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied.

When Jen Aniston and Brad Pitt broke up, I was dying to see something that said they were getting back together.

I broke everything inside the house - boom! - but my mother was always very nice. She'd say, 'OK, OK, have another ball.'

If there is anything that has broken the church's relationship with families, it is the global sexual abuse scandal.

I always wanted to play with my brothers, but they never let me and always bullied me. The bonding with my brothers happened only after we went our separate ways. That's when we understood the value of each other. Now, we talk a lot.

Blood must not have blood... I don't stand for anyone bullying bullies.

Some carry the burden of bitterness and resentfulness for many years.

I'll never burn a bridge.

I was a bit of a hot head when I was younger so I used to burn a lot of bridges.

Chimps are very quick to have a sudden fight or aggressive episode, but they're equally as good at reconciliation.

I believe cricket suffered because of me. Fans were disheartened because of me. I want to make them happy and win them over again.

Indigenous communities have suffered horribly as a result of residential schools.

We apologise for the laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians. We apologise especially for the removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families, their communities and their country.

When we forgive someone, it doesn't excuse their actions; it frees us from our own chronic stress and suffering, so it's in our own self-interest.

Christianity affirms that Jesus severed the link between suffering and deserving once for all on Calvary. God put the ledgers away and settled the accounts.

No one wanted to own Bloody Sunday.

It's clear to me now that we've got to reach out to the Arab Sunni community in particular in an effort to cause some moderate political activity to take place so they join the future of Iraq.

She who reconciles the ill-matched threads Of her life, and weaves them gratefully Into a single cloth – It's she who drives the loudmouths from the hall And clears it for a different celebration.