Quotes about Reconciliation

It is incredible how many hurts can be healed by the two words, 'I'm sorry.

In a world so torn apart by rivalry, anger, and hatred, we have the privileged vocation to be living signs of a love that can bridge all divisions and heal all wounds.

At the end of the day, God's love for me, for you, and for the world is settled at the cross.

We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.

Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?

Forgiveness doesn't make the other person right, it makes you free.

Somehow forgiveness, with love and tolerance, accomplishes miracles that can happen in no other way.

Love happens when people forgive.

Bonhoeffer was constantly trying to correct the idea of a false choice between God and humanity, or heaven and earth. God wanted to redeem humanity and to redeem this earth, not to abolish them.

In one conversation that September in Geneva, Visser 't Hooft asked Bonhoeffer what he prayed for. "If you want to know the truth," Bonhoeffer replied, "I pray for the defeat of my nation. For I believe that is the only way to pay for all the suffering which my country has caused in the world.

There ought to be no awkwardness or embarrassment to either of us, tho' there may be some anxiety: and if you will open to me fairly the whole state of your mind on these subjects, tho' I shall venture to state to you fairly the points where I fear we may differ, and to desire you to re-examine your own ideas where I think you are mistaken, I will not importune you with fruitless discussion on any opinion which you have deliberately formed.

If she were alive today, she would be ashamed of me. I'm trying to change that.