Quotes about Reconciliation
can understand how a kindly, patriotic man like Hayes would be charmed by the prospect. I was as anxious for such a policy as Mr. Hayes. There has never been a moment since Lee surrendered that I would not have gone more than halfway to meet the Southern people in a spirit of conciliation. But they have never responded to it. They have not forgotten the war.
— Ulysses S. Grant
A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity to vengeance, preferring to ruin himself rather than to ruin his enemy, saving him who had smitten him, kneeling on the heights of virtue, more nearly akin to an angel than to a man. Javert was constrained to admit to himself that this monster existed. Things could not go on in this manner.
— Victor Hugo
Yes, resumed the Bishop, you have come from a very sad place. Listen. There will be more joy in heaven over the tear-bathed face of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men. If you emerge from that sad place with thoughts of hatred and of wrath against mankind, you are deserving of pity; if you emerge with thoughts of good-will and of peace, you are more worthy than any one of us.
— Victor Hugo
God raises from the dead he who man slays, he whom his brothers have rejected, finds his father once more. Pray, believe, enter into life the father is there.
— Victor Hugo
How was she to reconcile men's desire with the desire to be beautiful in their eyes? At first she had tried for a compromise (desperate journeys abroad, where nobody knew her and no indiscretion could betray her); then, later on, she had gone radical and sacrificed her erotic life to her beauty.
— Milan Kundera
The first betrayal is irreparable. It calls forth a chain reaction of further betrayals, each of which takes us farther and farther away from the point of our original betrayal
— Milan Kundera
I love when I can reboot people when they are being mean to others.
— Richard Paul Evans
I love when I can reboot people when they are being mean to others.
— Richard Paul Evans
Can you ever forgive me? I already have. How could you? I don't deserve it. That's what makes it love.
— Richard Paul Evans
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive." -Mother Teresa
— Mother Teresa
That was the wonderful thing about New York: Years of bad blood could be wiped out with a single gesture of friendliness.
— Candace Bushnell