Quotes about Reconciliation
Hope for an end to war, hope for peace.
— Anne Frank
Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back.
— Anne Lamott
Who was it who said that forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a different past?
— Anne Lamott
Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant for you to hit back. You're done. It doesn't necessarily mean you want to vacation together.
— Anne Lamott
They say we are punished not for the sin but by the sin, and I began to feel punished by my unwillingness to forgive.
— Anne Lamott
Forgiving people doesn't necessarily mean you want to meet them for lunch. It means you try to undo the Velcro hook. Lewis Smedes said it best: "To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
— Anne Lamott
Make me a channel of Thy peace, that where there is hatred, let me sow love, or at least not fertilize the hate with my dainty bullshit.
— Anne Lamott
Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive. —C. S. LEWIS, MERE CHRISTIANITY
— Sheila Walsh
Love prospers when a fault is forgiven, but dwelling on it separates close friends. Proverbs 17:9
— Sheila Walsh
Does taking the life of the perpetrator return your mom? No.
— Desmond Tutu
Sin is not a stain that I must wash out. What I need to do is ask forgiveness and reconcile myself, not go to the drycleaners. I have to go encounter Jesus who gave his life for me.
— Pope Francis
I think in the end, God's justice is redemptive, it's restorative, it's about giving life, not taking life.
— Shane Claiborne