“ There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves. ”
- George Santayana- Copy
- 2K
“ There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them. ”
- C. S. Lewis- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were entreating through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. ”
- The Holy Bible- Copy
- 252
“ Unexplained joy is always so keen that…it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable. ”
- Jessie B. Fremont- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody. ”
- Samuel Pepys- Copy
- 1.3K
“ He who forgiveth, and is reconciled unto his enemy, shall receive his reward from God; for he loveth not the unjust doers. ”
- Koran Sura- Copy
- 1.6K
“ The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us. ”
- Quentin Crisp- Copy
- 507
“ My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income. ”
- Errol Flynn- Copy
- 1.9K
“ He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate can look fortune in the face. ”
- Boethius- Copy
- 667
“ In confession… we open our lives to healing, reconciling, restoring, uplifting grace of him who loves us in spite of what we are. ”
- Louis Cassels- Copy
- 2.3K
“ The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 40
“ Writing is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
- 3.2K
“ I am not in favor of caste, nor separation of the brotherhood of mankind, and would as willingly live among white men as Black, if I had equal possession and enjoyment of privileges, but I shall never be reconciled living among them subservient to their will. ”
- Martin Delany- Copy
- 2.9K
“ In all of his suffering, as in all of his life and ministry, Jesus refused to defend himself with force or with violence. He endured violence and cruelty so that God's love might be fully manifest and the world might be reconciled to the One from whom it had become estranged… ”
- The Challenge of Peace- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to the public. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
- 3.7K
“ I think it's part of that heritage or that tradition of the creative artist trying to reconcile the insanity and ruthlessness of the artistic process with living a sane and socially acceptable existence. ”
- Kevin Kline- Copy
- 3.5K
“ The Eucharist is not itself the sacrament of reconciliation, but in fact it presupposes that sacrament. It is the sacrament of the reconciled, to which the Lord invites all those who have become one with him; who certainly still remain weak sinners, but yet have give their hand to him and have become part of his family… ”
- Joseph Ratzinger- Copy
- 1.6K
“ When two texts, or two assertions, perhaps two ideas, are in contradiction, be ready to reconcile them rather than cancel one by the other; regard them as two different facets, or two successive stages, of the same reality, a reality convincingly human just because it is complex. ”
- Marguerite Yourcenar- Copy
- 44
“ Life is but short; no time can be afforded but for the indulgence of real sorrow, or contests upon questions seriously momentous. Let us not throw away any of our day upon useless resentment, or contend who shall hold out longest in stubborn malignity… ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 334
“ Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution. ”
- Sidney Jourard- Copy
- 681
“ Everyone has difficulty with the steps of inner growth, even with the outer obstacles seem easily surmountable. What's more, the prizes of our society are reserved for outer, not inner, achievements. Scant are the tropies for reconciling all the forces that compete to direct our development, although working toward such a reconciliation hour by demanding hour, day by triumphant day, year by exacting year is what underlies all growth of the personality. ”
- Gail Sheehy- Copy
- 514
“ The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows. ”
- Berenson- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling; The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel. ”
- George Du Maurier- Copy
- 3.9K
“ What are man and woman if not members of two very different and warring tribes? Yet decade after decade, century after century, they attempt in marriage to reconcile and forge a union. Why? I don't know. Biological imperative? Divine law? Or just a desire to connect to that mysterious other? In any case, it's always struck me as a hopeful thing. ”
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider- Copy
- 3.4K
“ A humble and contrite heart knows that it can merit nothing before God, and that all that is necessary is to be reconciled to one's helplessness and let our holy and almighty God care for us, just as an infant surrenders himself to his mother's care. ”
- Hallesby- Copy
- 1.7K
“ In it he proves that all things are true and states how the truths of all contradictions may be reconciled physically, such as for example that white is black and black is white; that one can be and not be at the same time; that there can be hills without valleys; that nothingness is something and that everything, which is, is not… ”
- Cyrano de Bergerac- Copy
- 2.7K
“ It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it. There are some things in every country that you must be born to endure; and another hundred years of general satisfaction with Americans and America could not reconcile this expatriate to cranberry sauce, peanut butter, and drum majorettes. ”
- Alistair Cooke- Copy
- 2.8K
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