Quotes about Reconciliation

The only hope for the future lay in an all-embracing attitude of forgiveness of the peoples who had been our enemies.

Ungrace causes cracks to fissure open between mother and daughter, father and son, brother and sister, between scientists, and prisoners, and tribes, and races. Left alone, cracks widen, and for the resulting chasms of ungrace there is only one remedy: the frail rope-bridge of forgiveness.

Along with Chesterton, I've had to take my place among those who acknowledge that we are what is wrong with the world. What is my snobbishness toward my childhood church, for instance, but an inverted form of the harsh judgment it showed me?

by denying forgiveness to others, we are in effect determining them unworthy of God's forgiveness, and thus so are we.

How differently will I relate to the uncommitted if I view them not as evil or unsaved but rather as lost.

The essence of Christian faith has come to us in story form, the story of a God who will go to any lengths to get his family back.

forgiveness alone can halt the cycle of blame and pain, breaking the chain of ungrace.

If reduced to a single phrase, the Bible's message would be something like this: God gets his family back. The Bible tells the story of how God, wanting to live in harmony with all that he had made, set out to win a rebellious world back to himself.

Paul Tillich once defined forgiveness as remembering the past in order that it might be forgotten—a principle that applies to nations as well as individuals.

Though forgiveness is never easy, and may take generations, what else can break the chains that enslave people to their historical past?

Paul Tillich once defined forgiveness as remembering the past in order that it might be forgotten

Only forgiveness frees us from the injustice of others.