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Quotes About Reconciliation

Forgive me....I called you an idiot. I spoke too hastily. You are not. Had I given it more thought, I would have called you a scoundrel.
~ Lloyd Alexander
Go back' Taran shouted at the top of his voice.'Have you lost your wits?' Eilonwy, for it was she, half-halted. She had tucked her plaited hair under a leather helmet. The Princess of Llyr smiled cheerfully at him. 'I understand you're upset,' she shouted back, 'but that's no cause to be rude.' She galloped on. For a time, Taran could not believe he had really seen her.
~ Lloyd Alexander
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
For a while, I thought I was going mad. At last, I became reconciled to my despair. The medications helped, too, I thought, sir.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
There will be grace and forgiveness enough, old dog, even for you. I pray you will spare me a drink from that cup, when it overflows for you. - Miles Vorkosigan
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Oh yeah, by the way, baby. I'm your husband. You know, the one that died? The one that wouldn't come back to you for six fucking years. Yeah, she'd accept that easily enough. Bullshit.
~ Lora Leigh
don't want you to say anything, Son. I want you to let Kelly come to you. She's been scared to death of your return, and I don't know why myself. I know you wouldn't hurt her, but I know for a fact she knows about some of those little affairs you and your cousins have participated in." And his father suspected she was scared of him now. Rowdy could see it in Ray's eyes, feel it in the air around them.
~ Lora Leigh
TSHEMBE (Whirling on him, words flying) And just why should we be able to "talk" so easily? What is this marvelous nonsense with you Americans? For a handshake, a grin, a cigarette and half a glass of whiskey you want three hundred years to disappear—and in five minutes!
~ Lorraine Hansberry
government finally made amends for its actions at Ruby Ridge.
~ Lou Michel
Now, with no hate group to run, Jerry spent his days playing Mah-jong on his computer
~ Louis Theroux
My dear, don't let the sun go down upon your anger - forgive each other, help each other and begin again tomorrow.
~ Louisa May Alcott
for no matter how lost and soiled and worn-out wandering sons may be, mothers can forgive and forget every thing as they fold them into their fostering arms. Happy the son whose faith in his mother remains unchanged, and who, through all his wanderings, has kept some filial token to repay her brave and tender love.
~ Louisa May Alcott
A kiss for a blow is always best, though it's not very easy to give it sometimes.
~ Louisa May Alcott
My dear, don't let the sun go down upon your anger. Forgive each other, help each other, and begin again tomorrow.
~ Louisa May Alcott
don't let the sun go down upon your anger. Forgive each other, help each other, and begin again tomorrow.
~ Louisa May Alcott
A kiss for a blow is always best, though it's not very easy to give it sometimes," said her mother, with the air of one who had learned the difference between preaching and practicing.
~ Louisa May Alcott
for no matter how lost and soiled and worn-out wandering sons may be, mothers can forgive and forget every thing as they fold them in their fostering arms. Happy the son whose faith in his mother remains unchanged, and who, through all his wanderings, has kept some filial token to repay her brave and tender love.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Never resigned to his father's desertion and always fearing press exposure of his bigamy, John was still trying to lure his seventy-one-year-old father back to Eliza and away from the sinful second marriage.
~ Ron Chernow
as if growing more accustomed to the burden that she bore and more reconciled to Bill's absences.
~ Ron Chernow
a place where something so terrible had happened shouldn't continue to exist in the world. The earth itself shouldn't be able to abide it.
~ Ron Rash
Now the work of the Lord Jesus Christ on the Cross was not only to bring men back into fellowship with God, but also into fellowship with their fellow men. Indeed
~ Roy Hession
By changing our history and our memory, they try to erase all our shame.
~ Ruth Ozeki
It is not true, what I said before, because I hated him. He was the war criminal, and after the war they hanged him. I was so happy I wept for joy when I heard he was dead. Then I shave my head and took the vow to stop hating.
~ Ruth Ozeki
Men think that it is impossible for a human being to love his enemies, for enemies are hardly able to endure the sight of one another. Well, then, shut your eyes--and your enemy looks just like your neighbor.
~ Soren Kierkegaard