Quotes about Reconciliation

Unhealed wounds open us up to habitual sin against God and others.

Charles Wesley fully sided with the Arminianism of his brother John, and abused his poetic gift by writing poor doggerel against Calvinism.847 He had a bitter controversy on the subject with Toplady, who was a devout Calvinist. But their theological controversy is dead and buried, while their devotional hymns still live, and Calvinists and Methodists heartily join in singing Wesley's "Jesus, Lover of my Soul," and Toplady's "Rock of Ages, cleft for me.

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory shall swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of nature.

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

Let us have peace.

Marriage stands for the creation of unity among two people who were once separated in every way before love reached out and found the other—the way God reached out and found us, and covenanted with us, and loved us, and despite who we are, despite what we're like, still loves us. This image, more than almost anything, is exactly what the enemy wants to denigrate.

Love's wounds can be healed only by the one who inflicts them.

Forgiveness is worthless to us emotionally if we can't forgive ourselves.

When you totally forgive your enemy, you have crossed over into the supernatural realm. Perhaps you are like me and wish

face up to the seriousness — possibly a high-handed wickedness — of what they did; and still to forgive. This