Charles Williams Quotes

It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend.

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

I think we might well ask: How does one destroy his enemy by becoming like him?

On both sides, all should be forever forgotten and forgiven—what has from the beginning of the unrest, no matter how or where, from one side or the other, happened in terms of hostility

People have things that happen between them. I certainly don't keep grudges.

Empathy is a necessary step for truth and reconciliation.

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.

I think most of the time when people have big disagreements and big misunderstandings, when time lessens that blow it creates a deeper understanding for both people.

The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another.

I think in most relationships that have problems, there's fault on both sides. And in order for it to work, there has to be some common ground that's shared. And it's not just one person making amends.

Now that we are cool, he said, and regret that we hurt each other, I am not sorry that it happened.

I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy.

By intensity of hatred, nations create in themselves the character that they imagine in their enemies. Hence it comes that all passionate conflicts result in an interchange of characteristics. We might say with truth, those who hate open a door by which their enemies enter and make their own the secret places of the heart.

What's really cool about our family is that we don't hold grudges, and I think that is what's been the key to the success. We get into our little disagreements, and whether we're right or wrong, we'll go and apologize. That's just the way we are.

Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.

We'll hold out our hand; they have to unclench their fist.

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

There is some tension but at the end of the day you have to reconcile.

If we are going to find reconciliation, it can’t be based on one group blaming the other. You can’t have one group feeling guilty and another group feeling defensive. You can’t have one side feeling shame and the other group feeling anger.

It takes years to turn enmity to amity.

I will negotiate with my worst enemy.

Reconciliation is a decision that you take in your heart.

Love is saying you're sorry. It's the opposite of those cherub posters that say, 'Love is never having to say you're sorry.' Wrong! Love is three sorrys a day. If you haven't met that quota, something's wrong.

I always tell people you can't make peace half way: to make peace with somebody, you have to make peace and bury the hatchet, or you just keep fighting forever.

An apology offered and, equally important, received is a step towards reconciliation and, sometimes, recompense. Without that process, hurts can rankle and fester and erupt into their own hatreds and wrongdoings.