Jan Vogler Quotes

A word of truth can mobilise two peoples looking for the road to reconciliation.

There has been enough blood in the Balkans. Serbia is offering its hand. Let us turn to the future and not deal with the past.

We must not only speak about forgiveness and reconciliation, we must act on these principles.

Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship.

I share the opinion of those of broader vision, who see in the signs of the time hope of humanity for peace.

In the aftermath of any war or genocide, healing and reconciliation are ultimate aspirations.

I believe that we can heal Rwanda - and our world - by healing one heart at a time.

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed, to forget the feuds of a thousand years.

Love each other because you are brethren from one father and mother. If you love one another, then God will be with you and will submit the enemy under your hands and you will live peacefully. In case, however, you live hatefully in feuds and dissension, then you will destroy yourselves.

A verdict satisfies one, but reconciliation satisfies two.

A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend.

We are not willing to accept that mothers and fathers on the other side don’t want peace. They also want it, and I understand that they have a lack of hope just like here.

We must rebuild Colombia, starting with ourselves, our hearts, put resentment aside, put hatred aside, put envy aside. The only thing that those attitudes accomplish is to sow violence and sow death and suffering.

Yet war doesn't end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.

The path of violence has not yielded anything. Shed guns and adopt the path of peace, unity, goodwill and brotherhood.

In all my travels, I've never seen a country's population more determined to forgive, and to build and succeed than in Rwanda.

No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.

Let us ask Mary to help us respond to violence, to conflict and to war, with the power of dialogue, reconciliation and love. She is our mother: may she help us to find peace; all of us are her children!

We have got to extend the hand of friendship, we have got to take the peacelines down brick by brick

My dream for Israel is peace, external and internal peace. I want Israel to live in peace with its neighbors and in peace with itself.

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

It should be our endeavor to cultivate the peace and friendship of every nation, even of that which has injured us most.

I hope next time when we meet, we won't be fighting each other. Instead we will be drinking tea together.

In a world so torn apart by rivalry, anger, and hatred, we have the privileged vocation to be living signs of a love that can bridge all divisions and heal all wounds.

There will be no future without forgiveness. Any process of peace is bound to collapse if this is missing. There is no way peace and stability can come through the gun of vengeance.