Quotes about Reconciliation
There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.
- George Eliot
Reconcile with yourself for the sake of the world , for the sake of all living beings . Your peace and serenity are crucial for all of us .
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Men cannot be our enemies--even men called Vietcong! If we kill men, what brothers will we have left? With whom shall we live then?
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Before you do the work of reconciliation with another, you need to restore communication with yourself.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
My dear friend, you are on safe ground. Everything is okay now. Why do you continue to suffer? Don't go back to the past. It's only a ghost; it's unreal." And whenever we recognize that these are only movies and pictures, not reality, we are free. That is the practice of mindfulness. Reconciling with Our Past Our original fear isn't just from our own birth and childhood; the fear we feel comes from both our own and our ancestors' original fear.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
AN ELDER was asked by a certain soldier if God would forgive a sinner. And he said to him: Tell me, beloved, if your cloak is torn, will you throw it away? The soldier replied and said: No. I will mend it and put it back on. The elder said to him: If you take care of your cloak, will God not be merciful to His own image?
- Thomas Merton
Father, I love You Whom I do not know, and I embrace You Whom I do not see, and I abandon myself to You Whom I have offended because You love in me Your only begotten Son. You see Him in me, You embrace Him in me, because He has willed to identify Himself completely with me by that love which brought Him to death, for me, on the Cross.
- Thomas Merton
We do not really know how to forgive until we know what it is to be forgiven. Therefore we should be glad that we can be forgiven by our brothers. It is our forgiveness of one another that makes the love of Jesus for us manifest in our lives, for in forgiving one another we act towards one another as He has acted towards us.
- Thomas Merton
Forgiving and being forgiven are two names for the same thing. The important thing is that a discord has been resolved.
- CS Lewis
There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
- CS Lewis
Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
- CS Lewis
I wait for you to complete the voyage into yourself, for the old wounds to heal. I know that when you return from your nightmares, we shall again walk hand in hand, as before.
- Isabel Allende