Quotes about Reconciliation
She'd kept too many secrets and abandoned too many people, and that wasn't even the worst of it.
- Dolly Parton
God answers the mess of life with one word: Grace.
- Max Lucado
The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever-recurring song of retaliation.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Consider God's charity. Where else have we ever seen someone who has been offended voluntarily paying out his life for those who have offended him?
- Catherine of Siena
Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.
- Jerry B. Jenkins
To remember no more is God's way of expressing absolute forgiveness.
- Jerry Bridges
Micah 7:19 ... "You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea." The picture is of God vigorously disposing of our sins by hurling them overboard. He doesn't just drop them over the side; He hurls them...
- Jerry Bridges
Christ died for our sins. Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, took upon Himself a human nature and died a horrible death on our behalf. That is the reason for the cross. He suffered what we should have suffered. He died in our place to pay the penalty for our sins.
- Jerry Bridges
All that Christ did in both His life and death, He did in our place as our substitute.
- Jerry Bridges
God does not exalt His mercy at the expense of His justice. And in order to maintain His justice, all sin without exception must be punished. Contrary to popular opinion, with God there is no such thing as mere forgiveness. There is only justice.
- Jerry Bridges
Forgiveness is about the past. Trust and respect are about the future. Forgiveness will be in the hands of others and can be given to you, but trust and respect are in your own hands … and must be earned.
- Andy Andrews
forgiveness is an altogether different thing from trust or respect. Forgiveness is about the past. Trust and respect are about the future. Forgiveness will be in the hands of others and can be given to you, but trust and respect are in your own hands … and must be earned.
- Andy Andrews