Quotes About Reconciliation

The bully and the victim never quite forget their first relations.

Don't brood too much," she wrote to Helen, "on the superiority of the unseen to the seen. It's true, but to brood on it is medieval. Our business is not to contrast the two, but to reconcile them.

Clive, did I hurt you?' 'No.' 'My darling, I didn't mean to.' 'I'm all right.' They looked at one another for a moment before beginning new lives. 'What an ending,' he sobbed, 'what an ending.

Not only in Tracts is a child a peacemaker.

How dare Schlegels despise Wilcoxes, when it takes all sorts to make a world? "Don't brood too much," she wrote to Helen, "on the superiority of the unseen to the seen. It's true, but to brood on it is medieval. Our business is not to contrast the two, but to reconcile them.

If the disease is sin, the remedy is found at the Cross.

you can't hate people and engage them with the gospel at the same time. You can't war with people and show the love of Jesus. You can't be both outraged and on mission.

There has never been a mechanism, through something like a truth and reconciliation commission, for telling ourselves the truth about what we have done in a way that would broadly legitimate government policies to repair systemic discrimination across generations. Instead, we pine for national rituals of expiation that wash away our guilt without the need for an admission of guilt,

You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched.

Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.

Accepting the loss of a loved one is difficult. But reconciling with the living is just as important.

GENNARO 'A sta guerra ccà se torna buone… Ca nun se vo' fa' male a nisciuno…»

Why, when the world gets to understand about it I expect that two men or two women, or a man and a woman, will come in here, and say to me, 'We have quarrelled and outraged each other, we have injured our friend, our wife, our husband; we regret, we would forgive, but we cannot, because we remember. Put between us the atonement of forgetfulness, that we may love each other as of old.

Anyhow, with their extraordinary gift for, and experience in, affairs of the heart from the double point of view, both of the man and of the woman it is not difficult to see that these people have a special work to do as reconcilers and interpreters of the two sexes to each other.

For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.

And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck.

Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace.

Ye are fallen from grace.

[A]ll forgiveness is a gift to yourself.

Peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near.

Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

We are members one of another.Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath.

Until seventy times seven.

If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink:For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head.