Quotes about Reconciliation
Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.
- William Paul Young
Those who say they will forgive but can't forget, simply bury the hatchet but leave the handle out for immediate use.
- DL Moody
Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community of humans and myself from the community of sinners.
- Miroslav Volf
Forgiveness does not replace justice.
- Pope Benedict XVI
Forgiveness is a gift you give to yourself
- Bishop TD Jakes
When you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. You bear it yourself. All forgiveness, then, is costly.
- Timothy Keller
Forgiveness is a favor we do for ourselves, not a favor we do to the other party.
- Harold S. Kushner
There is hope in forgiveness
- John Piper
The ultimate proof of total forgiveness takes place when we sincerely petition the Father to let those who have hurt us off the hookâeven if they have hurt not only us, but also those close to us.
- RT Kendall
Forgiveness is something that we are often asked to grant and very few of us ever have the roadmap of how to get from the pain that we have experienced to being able to forgive someone.
- Desmond Tutu
If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Forgiveness changes the way we remember. It converts the curse into a blessing. Forgiveness indeed heals memories...
- Henri Nouwen