Quotes about Reconciliation

One of the great healing balms of the Holy Spirit is forgiveness. To forgive is to break the link between you and your past.

Forgiving and being forgiven are two names for the same thing. The important thing is that a discord has been resolved.

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

When we forgive someone, it doesn't justify what they've done. It releases them into God's hands so He can deal with them.

He could not bear the thought that a barrier of words should drop between them again

If you know you have been forgiven, you will forgive and reconcile with others.

We may reconcile ourselves to the world at our peril, but it will never reconcile itself to us. . . . This unwillingness to die, doth actually impeach us of high treason against the Lord : is it not a choosing of earth before him ; and taking these present things for our happiness, and consequently asking them our very God (469)?

Truth is not always about pragmatic problem solving and making things "work," but about reconciling contradictions. Just because something might have some dire effects does not mean it is not true or even good. Just because something pleases people does not make it true either.

Forgiveness is to let go of our hope for a different or better past.

Seventy times seven is a medicine for a healing community, not for a community with all the answers beforehand and all the appropriate punishments afterwards.

Christ can hold together everything. In fact, Christ already does this; it is we who resist such wholeness, as if we enjoy our arguments and our divisions into parts.

It's time for Christianity to rediscover the deeper biblical theme of restorative justice, which focuses on rehabilitation and reconciliation, not punishment.