Quotes about Reconciliation

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 chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

Let us have peace.

Marriage stands for the creation of unity among two people who were once separated in every way before love reached out and found the other—the way God reached out and found us, and covenanted with us, and loved us, and despite who we are, despite what we're like, still loves us. This image, more than almost anything, is exactly what the enemy wants to denigrate.

Love's wounds can be healed only by the one who inflicts them.

Forgiveness is worthless to us emotionally if we can't forgive ourselves.

When you totally forgive your enemy, you have crossed over into the supernatural realm. Perhaps you are like me and wish

face up to the seriousness — possibly a high-handed wickedness — of what they did; and still to forgive. This

forgiveness.

But how can I know that there is no bitterness left? I would reply: (1) when there is no desire to get even or punish, (2) when I do or say nothing that would hurt their reputation or future, and (3) when I truly wish them well in all they seek to do. 9

Some carry the burden of bitterness and resentfulness for many years.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.

When Christ died on the cross for us, he said, It is finished (John 19:30). The Greek word translated it is finished was commonly written across certificates of debt when they were canceled. It meant paid in full. Christ died so that the certificate of debt, consisting of all our sins, could once and for all be marked paid in full.