Quotes about Reconciliation

The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be common, nor the common heroic.

How carefully would I atone, if I might, for the time I have lost!

Religion may be a private affair, but the woik and word of God are the reconciliation of the world with God, as it was performed in Jesus Christ.

He reconciles them with God through His death. That means that in His own death He makes their peace with God--before they themselves have decided for this peace and quite apart from that decision. In believing, they are only conforming to the decision about them that has already been made in Him.

We are saved by a man who died loving his enemies.

It's a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.

Jesus Christ became Incarnate for one purpose, to make a way back to God that man might stand before Him as He was created to do, the friend and lover of God Himself.

Son of God and Son of Man, there He hangs, bearing pains unutterable, the just for the unjust, to bring us to God.

A man who has broken with his past feels a different man. He will not feel it a shame to confess his past wrongs, for the simple reason that these wrongs do not touch him at all.

When you keep the porch light on for the prodigal child, you do what God does every single moment.

Don't let your pride or a lack of courage stand in the way of saying you're sorry to people you may have offended.

When you forgive, you must cancel the debt. Do not spend your life paying and collecting debts.