Quotes about Reconciliation

Love prospers when a fault is forgiven, but dwelling on it separates close friends. Proverbs 17:9

Does taking the life of the perpetrator return your mom? No.

I think in the end, God's justice is redemptive, it's restorative, it's about giving life, not taking life.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

But it is a sad and fatal mistake to treat those other ways [atonement theories] as though they lay on the same plane with this one foundation way [penal substitutionary theory]; in reality the other "theories" of the atonement lose all their meaning unless they are taken in connection with this blessed "theory".

Please," she whispered, her tears flowing unchecked. "Tell me what to say and I will say it gladly. If I have hurt your pride then take mine. I have no use for it without you.

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

Charnock said, "Water and fire may as well kiss each other, and live together without quarreling and hissing, as the holy will of God and the unregenerate heart of a fallen creature.

I never hold a grudge.

When death, the great Reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

No child was afraid of approaching Silas when Eppie was near him: there was no repulsion around him now, either for young or old; for the little child had come to link him once more with the whole world. There was love between him and the child that blent them into one, and there was love between the child and the world