Quotes about Reconciliation

all healthy spirituality will always have a truly "sexual" character to it, a desire for re-union. Religion is always, in one sense or another, about making one out of two! Cheap religion is invariably about maintaining the two and keeping things separate and apart. Think about that and see if it is not true.

Those who have hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment.

Relationships are always worth restoring.

In all my travels, I've never seen a country's population more determined to forgive, and to build and succeed than in Rwanda.

The Bible says, "You must make allowance for each other's faults and forgive the person who offends you. Remember, the Lord forgave you, so you must forgive others."14

Because we're sinners, we hurt each other, sometimes intentionally and sometimes unintentionally. But

The love of Jesus Christ covers your sins, and it also gives you the power to let other people off the hook. You've been forgiven, and you can forgive others.

You have a tremendous advantage over the man who does you an injury: You have it within your power to forgive him, while he has no such advantage over you.

I firmly believe a great many prayers are not answered because we are not willing to forgive someone.

Jesus taught us a prayer of community and reconciliation, belonging to a new people who have left the land of 'me'.

Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.