Quotes about Reconciliation
We shall not kill and maybe next time we even won't.
— William Faulkner
Some of the dumbest things we do are done out of anger and bitterness when someone has wronged us.
— Chip Ingram
For me there has been no serious difficulty in reconciling the principles of true science with the principles of true religion, for both are concerned with the eternal verities of the universe. Believe everything scholars can strictly prove and suit yourself about the rest. Science has nothing to say one way or the other about whether there is a spirit…The evidence lies outside of our present scientific knowledge.
— Henry B. Eyring
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
— Henry Ward Beecher
A forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note, torn in two and burned up, so that it can never be shown against the man.
— Henry Ward Beecher
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note — torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.
— Henry Ward Beecher
It is certainly a greater and more wonderful work to change the minds of enemies, bringing about a change of soul, than to kill them.
— St. John Chrysostom
And you know, when you've experienced grace and you feel like you've been forgiven, you're a lot more forgiving of other people. You're a lot more gracious to others.
— Rick Warren
If you don't find forgiveness, you'll never end up with peace,
— Steven James
Love is what happens when we forgive. I forgive Connor Evans. A part of me will always love him, but from this day on I won't hate him. Not for one minute. I forgive him because he gave me Max.
— Karen Kingsbury
Through my memory of the Passion, God can purify my memory of wrongs suffered because my identity stems neither from the wrongdoing done to me, which would require the perpetual accusation of my wrongdoer, nor from my own (false) innocence, which would lead me to (illegitimate) self-justification.
— Miroslav Volf