Quotes about Reconciliation

No gone is too far gone.

Criminal Minds, All You Can Eat: "Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."

And when Wisdom, the focal point of this divine involvement in the world, finally shone forth for Christian faith as the personal Word, the human Christ, all doubts about the possibility of a reconciliation between God and the world disappeared.

He had said that forgiveness is how we unchain ourselves from the past. We

How else can we become reconciled, except one individual at a time? This Jesus you seek did not come to address nations. He washed the wounds of lepers. He dined with sinners. He healed all who came to him. One person at a time.

You of all have the most to forgive." "Ah, and if so," he responded, "I have the most blessing to receive after I've done so."

The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicians. This is the work we are all called to do.

There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy. For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again.

Our relationships are often harmed when we try to atone for our own sins while condemning the other person for his.

Only when you accept the bad news of the gospel does the good news make any sense. The grace, restoration, reconciliation, forgiveness, mercy, patience, power, healing, and hope of the gospel are for sinners. They are only meaningful to you if you admit that you have the disease and realize that it is terminal.

Even if he never does this, I am called to maintain an attitude of forgiveness toward the offender.

The perfect, eternal love relationship between Father, Son, and Spirit was ripped apart to allow us to be restored to God and reconciled to one another.