Quotes about Reconciliation

what might have been had this family chosen to model forgiveness for their daughters rather than bitterness.

And here, shipmates, is true and faithful repentance; not clamorous for pardon, but grateful for punishment.

I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I normally tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists.

The forgiveness of God is one thing, but the proof that we want that forgiveness is the energy we expend to make amends for the wrong.

So many people live with anger and unforgiveness, and many of them are Christians.

Forgiveness is a way of opening up the doors again and moving forward, whether it's a personal life or a national life.

Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

To confess your sins to God is not to tell God anything God doesn't already know. Until you confess them, however, they are the abyss between you. When you confess them, they become the Golden Gate Bridge.

When somebody you've wronged forgives you, you're spared the dull and self-diminishing throb of a guilty conscience. When you forgive somebody who has wronged you, you're spared the dismal corrosion of bitterness and wounded pride. For both parties, forgiveness means the freedom again to be at peace inside their own skins and to be glad in each other's presence.

Leaving the Great House, my presence became known to the colored people, some of whom were children of those I had known when a boy. They all seemed delighted to see me, and were pleased when I called over the names of many of the old servants

I am no minister of malice. I would not strike the fallen. I would not repel the repentant, but may my "right hand forget her cunning, and my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth," if I forget the difference between the parties to that terrible, protracted, and bloody conflict.