Reconciliation Quotes - Page 4

• Non-violence means dialogue, using our language, the human language. Dialogue means compromise; respecting each other’s rights; in the spirit of reconciliation there is a real solution to conflict and disagreement. There is no hundred percent winner, no hundred percent loser—not that way but half-and-half. That is the practical way, the only way.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Real, Mean

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• Forgiveness, dialogue, reconciliation - these are the words of peace, in beloved Syria, in the Middle East, in all the world.

  Pope Francis

  Middle East, World, Beloved

  "Pope Leads Prayer Vigil For Peace In Syria". www.npr.org. September 8, 2013.

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• One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat

  Jimmy Carter

  Forgiveness, Spiritual, Peace

  Jimmy Carter (2011). “Living Faith”, p.141, Three Rivers Press

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• There is one key area in which Zuma has made no attempt at reconciliation whatsoever: criminal justice and security. The ministers of justice, defence, intelligence (now called "state security" in a throwback to both apartheid and the ANC's old Stalinist past), police and communications are all die-hard Zuma loyalists. Whatever their line functions, they will also play the role they have played so ably to date: keeping Zuma out of court - and making sure the state serves Zuma as it once did Mbeki.

  Mark Gevisser

  Communication, Past, Play

  "Can Zuma hold a nation together?" by Mark Gevisser, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2009.

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• Hatred is so lasting and stubborn, that reconciliation on a sickbed certainly forebodes death.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Hate, Hatred, Stubborn

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• The Communist Party of China is a party that seeks peace, harmony and reconciliation, unlike the Communist Party of the former Soviet Union

  Zheng Bijian

  Party, Unions, Harmony

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• If the world would apologize, I might consider a reconciliation.

  Mason Cooley

  Literature, World, Might

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• Reconciliation means - in victory, I win and you're wrong, and then you lose.

  Alveda King

  Mean, Winning, Victory

  "History of Nonviolence". "Glenn Beck", www.foxnews.com. April 20, 2010.

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• We owe the Aboriginal peoples a debt that is four centuries old. It is their turn to become full partners, in developing an even greater Canada. And the reconciliation required may be less a matter of legal texts than of attitudes of the heart.

  Romeo LeBlanc

  Attitude, Heart, Matter

  Romeo LeBlanc's Speech on the occasion of the presentation of the 1996 Native Role Models, archive.gg.ca. February 23, 1996.

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• Reality the iconoclast once more. Heaven will solve our problems, but not, I think, by showing us subtle reconciliations between all our apparently contradictory notions. The notions will all be knocked from under our feet. We shall see that there never was any problem.

  C. S. Lewis

  Reality, Thinking, Feet

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.34, Faber & Faber

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• Crime is a violation of people and relationships. It creates obligations to make things right. Justice involves the victim, the offender and the community in a search for solutions which promote repair, reconciliation and reassurance

  Howard Zehr

  People, Justice, Community

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• Some of the greatest spiritual revivals in the past occurred just when the situation seemed to be the darkest. In the history of our own nation, for example, countless thousands turned to Christ during the darkest days of the Civil War, setting the stage for national reconciliation later on.

  Billy Graham

  Spiritual, War, Past

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• One reason that a truth and reconciliation process is needed for group selection is to return to the simplicity of the original problem and Darwin’s solution. As Ed Wilson and I put it in our recent review article titled “Rethinking the Theoretical Foundation of Sociobiology“: Selfishness beats altruism within groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish groups. Everything else is commentary.

  David Sloan Wilson

  Selfish, Simplicity, Foundation

  "Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection II: The Original Problem" by David Sloan Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 1, 2009.

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• Paul's vision, though, is starting small, with actual communities in which reconciliation and justice has to be practiced - like the rich/poor distinction in the Corinthian church, for instance, or the projected reconciliation between Philemon and Onesimus. But he clearly believes (Ephesians 3) that communities like this send a signal to the wider world that Jesus is Lord - which is aimed at then the whole world coming into line.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Believe, Justice

  Source: kenwytsma.com

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• In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Lying, Silence, Mind

  "On Warren Hastings" by Thomas B. Macaulay, 1841.

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• Every relation to mankind, of hate or scorn or neglect, is full of vexation and torment.

  Orville Dewey

  Hate, Vexation, Neglect

  Orville Dewey (1841). “Discourses on Human Life”, p.157

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• The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Opposites, Evil, Principles

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• It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Powerful, Forgiving, Easy

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.34

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• Israel is no longer a people that dwells alone, and has to join the global journey toward peace, reconciliation and international cooperation.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Journey, Israel, People

  Yitzhak Rabin, Efraim Inbar, Merkaz Besa le-meḥḳarim asṭraṭegiyim (1996). “Yitzhak Rabin and Israeli national security: special memorial issue”

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• Are they moved by a sense of human need for silence, for reflection, for inner seeking? So they want to get away from the noise and tension of modern life, at least for a little while, in order to relax their minds and wills and seek a blessed healing sense of inner unity, reconciliation, integration?

  Thomas Merton

  Blessed, Healing, Reflection

  Thomas Merton (1979). “Love and Living”, p.44, Macmillan

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• The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Philosophy, Practice, Astonishment

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.95

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• When you think of the KKK, they actually have as their emblem a fiery cross. And they don't see any contradiction between the cross, an instrument of suffering that procured our reconciliation with God, and its use as a symbol for nefarious attacks on black people. But they believe that they are being obedient to God because they can read things that they see.

  Desmond Tutu

  Believe, Thinking, Kkk

  Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. June 17, 2012.

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• Faith consists not in ignorance, but in knowledge - knowledge not of God merely...but when we recognize God as a propitious Father through the reconciliation made by Christ, and Christ as given to us for righteousness, sanctification, and life.

  John Calvin

  Father, Ignorance, Christ

  Mortimer J. Adler, John Calvin (1993). “Institutes of the Christian religion”

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• A poet is deeply conflicted and it's in his work that he reconciles those deep conflicts. The place is the harbor. It doesn't set the world in order, you know, it's the place of reconciliation. It's the Consolamentum, the kiss of peace.

  Irving Layton

  Kissing, Order, World

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• The coming of Christ means a denial of what we thought we were. It means destroying the white devil in us. Reconciliation to God means that white people are prepared to deny themselves (whiteness), take up the cross (blackness) and follow Christ (black ghetto).

  James H. Cone

  Mean, Ghetto, White

  James H. Cone “Black Theology and Black Power”, Orbis Books

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