Quotes about Reconciliation

Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.

God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.

At the time, I didn't know what forgiveness meant. I wouldn't really know what forgiveness meant for another year, until my pastor, Rick McKinley, happened to spell it out in a sermon. He said that when you forgive, you bear the burden somebody has given you without holding them accountable.

The entire world is falling apart because nobody will admit they are wrong.

Asking forgiveness involves giving power to the person you're seeking forgiveness from.

He and sin must quarrel, if he and God are to be friends.

Out of Christ, God is a consuming fire. In Christ, He is a reconciled Father. Without Christ, the strictest moralist may well tremble, as he looks forward to his end. Through Christ, the chief of sinners may approach God with confidence, and feel perfect peace.