Quotes About Reconciliation

If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.

They stript Joseph out of his coat, his coat of many colors.

For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us.

Without shedding of blood is no remission.

Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.

Best friend: someone you can only stay mad at for so long because you have important things to talk about.

An apology is a good way to have the last word.

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts.

This, perhaps, is how lives are measured, a series of abandonments that we hope beyond reason will eventually be reconciled.

We return to the places we're from; we trample faded corners and pencil in new lines.

There are no more gates within him, no more divisions. It is as if everything he has done in his life has pooled together inside him and slops dully against his edges. His mother, the man he has killed, the languishing garden--he will never be able to live it down, never live through it, never live enough to compensate for all the things he has stolen.

vital political truth: military victory can be secured only by reconciliation with the defeated. Although most empire-builders in the ancient world

The difficulty of reconciling the existence of evil with God's alleged omnipotence and mercy has, it can plausibly be argued, defeated every orthodox theologian in the history of monotheism.

He had been responsible for her injuries and, subsequently, he had left his wife for her. I didn't know what to say.

Bad Boys was nothing less than a complete travesty of the truth. It turned my parents into the villains of the piece.

You didn't hate her,' Joy said, quietly. 'Things weren't right between you, that's all. You were both living in the shadow of what had happened and you didn't realise how much it was hurting you.

My position has always been to avoid violence to avoid provocation.

I think we're really hungry for family in America, especially when I feel like people are really pulled apart from their families.

Look at the things you've done and ask for forgiveness. After clearing out that wreckage from the past, you can move forward, in a way, to keep your finger on the pulse.

I used to break glasses and punch people in 'Ek Hasina Thi,' but it was all pardoned as my character was negative.

If two guys want to go see each other, let them be in the middle, let them throw some punches, then break it up.

Let's not talk punishment.

I do understand how hate eats at the soul and how to purge yourself of hate.

The purpose of the criminal justice system is both to rehabilitate and to punish. If we can rehabilitate somebody, that's a huge, huge win.