Quotes about Reconciliation
God give me patience to reconcile with what I am not able to change. Give me strength to change what I can. And give me wisdom to distinguish one from another.
- Marcus Aurelius
But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest. Maybe
- Margaret Atwood
Remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.
- Margaret Atwood
One day this terrible war will be over. The time will come when we'll be people again and not just Jews!
- Anne Frank
Hope for an end to war, hope for peace.
- Anne Frank
Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back.
- Anne Lamott
Who was it who said that forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a different past?
- Anne Lamott
Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant for you to hit back. You're done. It doesn't necessarily mean you want to vacation together.
- Anne Lamott
They say we are punished not for the sin but by the sin, and I began to feel punished by my unwillingness to forgive.
- Anne Lamott
Forgiving people doesn't necessarily mean you want to meet them for lunch. It means you try to undo the Velcro hook. Lewis Smedes said it best: "To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
- Anne Lamott
Make me a channel of Thy peace, that where there is hatred, let me sow love, or at least not fertilize the hate with my dainty bullshit.
- Anne Lamott
Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive. —C. S. LEWIS, MERE CHRISTIANITY
- Sheila Walsh