Forgiveness and Reconciliation

True reconciliation does not consist in merely forgetting the past.

O, father forsaken, Forgive your son!

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee

We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.

In the morning glad I see,

I was angry with my friend;

Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents, never revenges itself.

Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Sir, no man’s enemy, forgiving all But will his negative inversion, be prodigal.

I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold

Forgive us all our trespasses, Little creatures, everywhere!

Word over all, beautiful as the sky, Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage must in time be utterly lost, That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again, and ever again, this soil’d world; For my enemy is dead, a man divine as myself is dead.

’Twas a thief said the last kind word to Christ: Christ took the kindness and forgave the theft.

Dear Lord and Father of mankind, Forgive our foolish ways! Reclothe us in our rightful mind, In purer lives Thy service find, In deeper reverence, praise.

And throughout all eternity I forgive you, you forgive me.

She hugg’d the offender, and forgave the offense: Sex to the last. 9

So may he rest; his faults lie gently on him!

Pray you now, forget and forgive.

Mine enemy’s dog, Though he had bit me, should have stood that night Against my fire.

Life is short. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly and love truly .

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

Love your enemy, it will scare the hell out of them.