Quotes About Reconciliation

I am 100% in the camp that says forgiveness is mostly about the forgiver.

I think there are different levels of forgiveness.

The only thing I've settled in my mind is that I want to forgive, and forgiveness comes with forgetting.

I believe in forgiveness.

As a matter of fact, forgiveness is not something you feel like doing, it's really a choice.

When people wrong us, you say, God, I choose to forgive this person. And sometimes people come back and ask for forgiveness and sometimes people don't.

When I felt real forgiveness, my heart was set free.

Forgiving is OK. Forgetting, never.

Christians are supposed to be the most forgiving people on the face of the Earth.

Forgiving is not an easy thing to do.

Forgotten is forgiven.

I maintain that the past record of my race is a true index of the feelings which today animate them. They bear toward their former masters no revengeful thoughts, no hatreds, no animosities. They aim not to elevate themselves by sacrificing one single interest of their white fellow-citizens.

I've been disrespectful over the years in my career because I was living a young, turnt up life. So I've said a lot of crazy things about a lot of stuff and looking back, I wouldn't take anything back, but looking forward, I wouldn't do it again.

Australia can no longer afford to go down the path of confrontation and fragmentation which has embittered and disfigured so many aspects of the national life.

I never see my movies. When they're on television, I click them away. Hollywood created an image, and I long ago reconciled myself with it. I was the French cliche.

It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend.

God's justice, as Desmond Tutu insisted, is not retributive but restorative.64 It is natural that many do not understand this, because "God's love, resisted, is felt as wrath.

All the way back, she had imagined him gloating and taunting, rubbing her face in her own broken pride. Instead, he knelt before her and washed her dirty, blistered feet. Throat burning, she looked down at his dark head and struggled with the feelings rising in her. She waited for them to die away, but they wouldn't.

loved her, Lord. I loved her enough to die for her, and she did this to me. Maybe she's beyond redemption. How do you forgive someone who doesn't even care enough to want to be forgiven?

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. JOHN F. KENNEDY

All the way back, she had imagined him gloating and taunting, rubbing her face in her own broken pride. Instead, he knelt before her and washed her dirty, blistered feet.

She destroyed his dreams, and he made her wind chimes.

I was vaguely aware that same of those around me thought that this pairing of explorations was contradictory and I was headed over a cliff, but I found it difficult to imagine that there could be a real conflict between scientific truth and spiritual truth. Truth is truth. Truth cannot disprove truth.

Such trauma can be healed by cooperation, not by confrontation. The summons to cooperate identifies the healer.