Quotes about Reconciliation

If we can find forgiveness in our hearts for those who have caused us hurt and injury, we will rise to a higher level of self-esteem and well-being.

There have been times that I've wept as I've gone from city to city and I've seen how far people have wandered from God.

My self healing lies in praying for those who have harmed me.

I've become a master of the apology.

Every time I make an assumption about someone who has hurt or disappointed me without confirming it, I believe a lie about this person in my head. This assumption is a misrepresentation of reality. Because I have not checked it out with the other person, it is very possible I am believing something untrue. It is also likely I will pass that false assumption around to others.

Our debts (sins) are cancelled.

All our families are broken and marred by the effects of the Fall.

Unhealed wounds open us up to habitual sin against God and others.

Charles Wesley fully sided with the Arminianism of his brother John, and abused his poetic gift by writing poor doggerel against Calvinism.847 He had a bitter controversy on the subject with Toplady, who was a devout Calvinist. But their theological controversy is dead and buried, while their devotional hymns still live, and Calvinists and Methodists heartily join in singing Wesley's "Jesus, Lover of my Soul," and Toplady's "Rock of Ages, cleft for me.

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory shall swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of nature.