Forgiveness and Reconciliation

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace! Where there is hatred let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; Where there is sadness, joy.

 

Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith.

Forgiving and being forgiven are two names for the same thing. The important thing is that a discord has been resolved.

No one ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Every one says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.

 

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace!

 

Having looked the past in the eye, having asked for forgiveness and having made amends, letus shut the door on the past—not in order to forget it but in order not to allow it to imprison us.

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you.

And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

He who cannot forgive others destroys the bridge over which he himself must pass.

When you admonish a wrongdoer, do so gently, that it may not lead to hostility.

When a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us.

Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Dear Lord and Father of mankind,

To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite;