Reconciliation Quotes - Page 12

• To reconcile conflicting parties, we must have the ability to understand the suffering of both sides. If we take sides, it is impossible to do the work of reconciliation. And humans want to take sides. That is why the situation gets worse and worse. Are there people who are still available to both sides? They need not do much. They need do only one thing: Go to one side and tell all about the suffering endured by the other side, and go to the other side and tell all about the suffering endured by this side. This is our chance for peace. But how many of us are able to do that?

  Nhat Hanh

  Party, People, Listening

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• It is in vain that we search for an essential difference between good and evil, for their constituents are the same. The crucial distinction lies in their structure, i.e., the manner in which the pieces are assembled. Evil is disintegration, an angry juxtaposition of alienated opposites, with parts always striving to repress other parts. Good is the synthesis and reconciliation of these same pieces.

  Charles Hampden-Turner

  Lying, Opposites, Differences

  Charles Hampden-Turner (1982). “Maps of the Mind”, Macmillan Publishing Company

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• In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed the documents to the next government, and I never heard about it again.

  Jean-Bertrand Aristide

  Government, Justice, Haiti

  "An Exclusive Interview With Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide". Interview with Nicolas Rossier, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 15, 2010.

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• The modern physicist is a quantum theorist on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and a student of gravitational relativity on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. On Sunday, he is praying... that someone will find the reconciliation between the two views.

  Norbert Wiener

  Friday, Monday, Sunday

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• Since 1980, we've used reconciliation 22 times, and out of those times, Republicans used it 16 times. So, earth to my Republican friends, you can have your option but you cannot change these facts. They're in the Congressional Record

  Barbara Boxer

  Records, Earth, Facts

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• Make an amiable intermediary of an egg, which comes between the various parts of food to bring about difficult reconciliations.

  Emmanuel des Essarts

  Eggs, Difficult, Various

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• The world is desperately in need of people who will break themselves open and pour themselves out for the reconciliation of all things- that's what the world needs.

  Rob Bell

  People, Needs, World

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• This thing I am feeling, I’m almost certain, is the closest I’ll ever come to standing somewhere in between truth and reconciliation.

  Raquel Cepeda

  Feelings, Certain, Standing

  Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.269, Simon and Schuster

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• Obama is hardly the first president to seek rapprochement with our adversaries and reconciliation with our enemies, of course. But his determination to make nice - even in the face of clear and repeated rejection from the other side - is unparalleled. For Obama and his team, diplomacy with rogue regimes is an end in itself, and any deal, however one-sided, is a win, especially one that the White House communications mavens think that friendly media will call a 'breakthrough' or 'historic.'

  Stephen F. Hayes

  Determination, Nice, Team

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• The union of the family lies in love; and love is the only reconciliation of authority and liberty.

  Robert Hugh Benson

  Love, Lying, Liberty

  Robert Hugh Benson (2015). “Dawn of All”, p.31, Booklassic

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• Christianity is NOT a religion; it is the proclamation of the end of religion. Religion is a human activity dedicated to the job of reconciling God to humanity and humanity to itself. The Gospel, however - the Good News of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, is the astonishing announcement that God has done the whole work of reconciliation without a scrap of human assistance. It is the bizarre proclamation that religion is over - period.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Jesus, Jobs, Humanity

  Robert Farrar Capon (1996). “The Astonished Heart: Reclaiming the Good News from the Lost-and-found of Church History”, p.2, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Women must be the spokesmen for a new humanity arising out of the reconciliation of spirit and body.

  Carol P. Christ

  Humanity, Body, Spirit

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• Things happen, people change,' is what Amanda said. For her that covered it. You wanted an explanation, and ending that would assign blame and dish up justice. You considered violence and you considered reconciliation . But what you are left with is a premonition of the way your life will fade behind you, like a book you have read too quickly, leaving a dwindling trail of images and emotions, until all you can remember is a name.

  Jay McInerney

  Life, Book, Names

  Jay McInerney (2011). “Bright Lights, Big City”, p.127, Vintage

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• We understand it still that there is no easy road to freedom. We know it well that none of us acting alone can achieve success. We must therefore act together as a united people, for national reconciliation, for nation building, for the birth of a new world. Let there be justice for all. Let there be peace for all. Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all. Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another and suffer the indignity of being the skunk of the world. Let freedom reign.

  Nelson Mandela

  Beautiful, Land, Justice For All

  Presidential Inaugural Speech, delivered 10 May 1994, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Moderation, the Golden Mean, the Aristonmetron, is the secret of wisdom and of happiness. But it does not mean embracing an unadventurous mediocrity; rather it is an elaborate balancing act, a feat of intellectual skill demanding constant vigilance. Its aim is a reconciliation of opposites.

  Robertson Davies

  Mean, Acceptance, Skills

  Robertson Davies, Surridge, Jennifer (1997). “Happy Alchemy: Writings on the Theatre and Other Lively Arts”, M&S

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• God is the ultimate musician. His music transforms your life. The notes of redemption rearrange your heart and restore your life. His songs of forgiveness, grace, reconciliation, truth, hope, sovereignty, and love give you back your humanity and restore your identity.

  Paul David Tripp

  Song, Heart, Giving

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• Using trees as a symbol of peace is in keeping with a widespread African tradition. For example, the elders of the Kikuyu carried a staff from the thigi tree that, when placed between two disputing sides, caused them to stop fighting and seek reconciliation. Many communities in Africa have these traditions.

  Wangari Maathai

  Fighting, Two, Community

  Wangari Maathai's Nobel lecture at the City Hall in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2004.

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• Nobody needs to go anywhere else. We are all, if we only knew it, already there. If I only knew who in fact I am, I should cease to behave as what I think I am; and if I stopped behaving as what I think I am, I should know who I am. What in fact I am, if only the Manichee I think I am would allow me to know it, is the reconciliation of yes and no lived out in total acceptance and the blessed experience of Not-Two. In religion all words are dirty words. Anybody who gets eloquent about Buddha, or God, or Christ, ought to have his mouth washed out with carbolic soap.

  Aldous Huxley

  Dirty, Blessed, Acceptance

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• I thought there's something to be said for honor in this world where there doesn't seem to be any honor left. I thought that maybe happiness wasn't really anything more than the knowledge of a life well spent, in spite of whatever immediate discomfort you had to undergo, and that if a life well spent meant compromises and conciliations and reconciliations, and suffering at the hands of the person you love, well then better that than live without honor.

  William Styron

  Hands, Honor, Suffering

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• Power... Military success is not sufficient to win: economic development, institution-building and the rule of law, promoting internal reconciliation, good governance, providing basic services to the people, training and equipping indigenous military and police forces, strategic communications, and more of these, along with security, are essential ingredients for long-term success.

  Robert M. Gates

  Peace, Military, Communication

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• My Republican friends are lamenting reconciliation. But I would recommend for them to go back and look at history.

  Harry Reid

  Looks, Republican

  "Health Care Summit Backfires Big Time on Obama and the Democrats". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. February 25, 2010.

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• We shall prepare the coffee of reconciliation through the filter of justice. Through reconciliation, streams of tears will come to our eyes.

  Jean-Bertrand Aristide

  Coffee, Eye, Justice

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• If you look at the gospel, it just doesn't break things apart. The gospel brings things together. One of the great demonstration of the gospel's power is reconciliation.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Together, Looks, Break

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• My words hang in the air. I look to the screen, hoping to see them recording some wave of reconciliation going through the crowd. Instead I watch myself get shot on television.

  Suzanne Collins

  Air, Watches, Looks

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.217, Scholastic Inc.

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• Well, now that you set him on fire, I'm sure we're well on the path to reconciliation.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Fire, Path, Wells

  Alexandra Adornetto (2012). “Heaven”, p.87, Macmillan

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