Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.
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Reconciliation is a part of the healing process, but how can there be healing when the wounds are still being inflicted?
Reconciliations are for after the violence has ended.
People can forgive each other.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Many people have trouble with forgiveness because they have been taught it is a singular act to be completed in one sitting. That is not so. Forgiveness has many layers, many seasons.
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
When people realize that they have been forgiven of everything, it becomes a little bit easier for them to forgive others.
It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.