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.
When the truth emerges, then we reconcile ourselves to truth and unity and in charity or in love.
I am hoping that in this year of the family we will go into our families and reconcile differences.
The willingness of God to sacrifice his Son to reconcile us to himself is a demonstration of his love for us.
The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.
I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.
I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.
Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be brought -- by force of circumstances, not argument -- to reconcile itself to any kind of government or religion that can be devised; in time it will fit itself to the required conditions; later it will prefer them and will fiercely fight for them.
Since religion intrinsically rejects empirical methods, there should never be any attempt to reconcile scientific theories with religion. An infinitely old universe, always evolving, may not be compatible with the Book of Genesis. However, religions such as Buddhism get along without having any explicit creation mythology and are in no way contradicted by a universe without a beginning or end. Creatio ex nihilo, even as religious doctrine, only dates to around AD 200. The key is not to confuse myth and empirical results, or religion and science.
A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.
It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person to reconcile himself to the idea that after all God will not help him
A brother who recognizes that we have shortcomings, we, in the struggle, have faults, and that he wanted to reconcile differences.
Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.
The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.
One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!
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.
You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.
As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom...it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.
Apology sends the clearest signal that we have the strength of character to reconcile ourselves with the truth.
While it takes at least two to reconcile, it only takes one to forgive.
The revelation of Christ, for which our souls thirst, thrills us increasingly as we more clearly understand who He is in all His fullness and what He accomplished to reconcile us to Himself.
How much education may reconcile young people to pain and sufference, the examples of Sparta do sufficiently shew; and they who have once brought themselves not to think bodily pain the greatest of evils, or that which they ought to stand most in fear of, have made no small advance toward virtue.
Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.
Science explains the world, but only Art can reconcile us to it.
There is hardly any personal defect... which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.
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