Quotes about Reconciliation
Jesus taught us a prayer of community and reconciliation, belonging to a new people who have left the land of 'me'.
- Shane Claiborne
Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.
- Jerry B. Jenkins
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our relationship with God will never be right as long as our relationship with others is wrong.
- Alistair Begg
If we can exit a relationship, pressure to reconcile lessens; if we must live with those who have wronged us, we are pushed to reconcile.
- Miroslav Volf
Without forgiveness there can be no future for a relationship between individuals or within and between nations.
- Desmond Tutu
I suppose that since most of our hurts come through relationships so will our healing, and I know that grace rarely makes sense for those looking in from the outside.
- William Paul Young
Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive.
- William Paul Young
Love. Forgive. As you forgive, you will be forgiven.
- Davis Bunn
First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
- Thomas a Kempis
May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.
- Marianne Williamson
A young woman asked the great preacher Charles Spurgeon if it was possible to reconcile God's sovereignty and man's responsibility. "Young woman," said he. "You don't reconcile friends".
- Elisabeth Elliot