Quotes about Reconciliation
As long as I viewed someone as the enemy, I gave that person some power over my life. But as I forgave a person, I too was free.
- Sheila Walsh
He canceled the record of the charges against us and took it away by nailing it to the cross. In this way, he disarmed the spiritual rulers and authorities. He shamed them publicly by his victory over them on the cross. (Colossians 2:14—15)
- Sheila Walsh
I believe that Northern Ireland has come to a time of peace, a time when hate will no longer rule.
- Ian Paisley
We used to hate and destroy one another and refused to associate with people of another race or country. Now, because of Christ, we live together with such people and pray for our enemies.
- Justin Martyr
Jesus was God and man in one person, that God and man might be happy together again.
- George Whitefield
We who formerly hated and murdered one another now live together and share the same table. We pray for our enemies and try to win those who hate us.
- Justin Martyr
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You and your sins must separate, or you and your God will never come together.
- Charles Spurgeon
All of history is a kind of broken marriage and God puts it back together again.
- Peter Kreeft
Life is a process where people mix and match, fall apart and come back together.
- Nikki Giovanni
I desired as many as could to join together in fasting and prayer, that God would restore the spirit of love and of a sound mind to the poor deluded rebels in America.
- John Wesley
If you look at the gospel, it just doesn't break things apart. The gospel brings things together. One of the great demonstration of the gospel's power is reconciliation.
- Tullian Tchividjian