151 Quotes About Reconciliation

You see, a blessing is a divine gift, a redeeming grace from God that radiates through peace, hope, love, and reconciliation. And only through people can this divine gift be generously shared and partaken by others, because only people are the real instrument of God’s blessings. (— Danny Castillones Sillada, Blessed People and People Who Are Blessings from God)

Examples of goodness that know no ethnic, religious, racial, or political bounds are important documents of war, as they also represent an axis around which a healthy future can be constructed after the atrocities have halted.

Forgiveness is the virtue of the courageous, the response of the forgiven, the mercy of the just.

Absolute hospitality would in no way amount to the absence of violence. To the contrary, it would enthrone violence precisely under the guise of nonviolence because it would leave the violators unchanged and the consequences of violence unremedied.

You cannot disown what is yours. Flung out, there is always the return, the reckoning, the revenge, perhaps the reconciliation. There is always the return. And the wound will take you there.

Many people today agree that we need to reduce violence in oursociety. If we are truly serious about this, we must deal with theroots of violence, particularly those that exist within each of us. Weneed to embrace 'inner disarmament,' reducing our own emotions ofsuspicion, hatred and hostility toward our brothers and sisters.

His healing was a process of self-reconciliation, accepting the darkest parts of himself and integrating them into who he knew himself to be.

I have learned that we all contain multitudes and hypocrisies and that change is slow moving. I've learned that reconciliation has to occur between the parts of ourselves that are fragmented and wounded.

Stop telling people to reconcile, when you have no idea what it took for them to break free.