Quotes about Reconciliation
AN ELDER was asked by a certain soldier if God would forgive a sinner. And he said to him: Tell me, beloved, if your cloak is torn, will you throw it away? The soldier replied and said: No. I will mend it and put it back on. The elder said to him: If you take care of your cloak, will God not be merciful to His own image?
— Thomas Merton
Father, I love You Whom I do not know, and I embrace You Whom I do not see, and I abandon myself to You Whom I have offended because You love in me Your only begotten Son. You see Him in me, You embrace Him in me, because He has willed to identify Himself completely with me by that love which brought Him to death, for me, on the Cross.
— Thomas Merton
We do not really know how to forgive until we know what it is to be forgiven. Therefore we should be glad that we can be forgiven by our brothers. It is our forgiveness of one another that makes the love of Jesus for us manifest in our lives, for in forgiving one another we act towards one another as He has acted towards us.
— Thomas Merton
Forgiving and being forgiven are two names for the same thing. The important thing is that a discord has been resolved.
— CS Lewis
There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
— CS Lewis
Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
— CS Lewis
I wait for you to complete the voyage into yourself, for the old wounds to heal. I know that when you return from your nightmares, we shall again walk hand in hand, as before.
— Isabel Allende
The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.
— George Eliot
God will forgive me the foolish remarks I have made about Him just as I will forgive my opponents the foolish things they have written about me, even though they are spiritually as inferior to me as I to thee, O God!
— Heinrich Heine
Peace is a fulltime job. It's protecting civilians, overseeing elections, and disarming ex-combatants. Peace, like war, must be waged.
— George Clooney
I'm ready to stop waging war and start washing feet.
— Rachel Held Evans
There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.
— Jimmy Carter