Quotes & Sayings About Reconciling With Family

What is our task in this world as children of God and brothers and sisters of Jesus? Our task is reconciliation. Wherever we go we see divisions among people - in families, communities, cities, countries, and continents. All these divisions are tragic reflections of our separation from God. The truth that all people belong together as members of one family under God is seldom visible. Our sacred task is to reveal that truth in the reality of everyday life. Why is that our task? Because God sent Jesus to reconcile us with God and to give us the task of reconciling people with one another. As people reconciled with God through Jesus we have been given the ministry of reconciliation (see 2 Corinthians 5:18). So whatever we do the main question is, Does it lead to reconciliation among people? — Henri J.M. Nouwen

The trouble with a kitten is that it eventually becomes a cat. — Ogden Nash

Rain symbolizes mercy and sunlight charity, but rain and sunlight are better than mercy and charity. Otherwise they would degrade the things they symbolize. — Gene Wolfe

Rent control has in certain Western countries constituted, maybe, the worst example of poor planning by Governments lacking courage and vision. — Gunnar Myrdal

Fall in light, grow in light. — Jeff Buckley

There's no present, there's no future, I don't even know about the past. — Ozzy Osbourne

This is a place for ordinary human compassion of the kind that is reconciling — Richard Chartres

It is not the longevity of life that matters the most; it is the beauty of life. — Debasish Mridha

Small minds just like light winds can never create giant waves. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Look at the Palestinians with the huge, huge percentage of unemployed. What does that breed? Anyone who's unemployed in the world, you feel there's no meaning and there's a risk that you drift over to something desperate. Yes, we have to tackle the social problems as well. — Hans Blix

Success is knowing that one other human being has breathed a little easier because you lived. — Dennis Kimbro

I have no directing ambition whatsoever. And as long as I meet filmmakers like Tom Hooper, Stephen Frears, and others who allow that collaboration, I can't see why I would ever want to direct. — Peter Morgan

It is possible to combine a story line and plot line in the same work. Usually the storylines comes first, serving as a background to the plot line, but not always. — James N. Frey

The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you. — Gloria Vanderbilt