Reconcile Quotes
He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth.
I loved my body and did not want it to perish; I loved my soul and did not want it to decay. I have fought to reconcile these two primordial forces.
To reconcile conflicting parties, we must have the ability to understand the suffering of both sides.
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.
I'm happy if my book makes you want to kiss your family... if we can reconcile with each other no matter where we are on the globe.
One of the most ordinary weaknesses of the human intellect is to seek to reconcile contrary principles, and to purchase peace at the expense of logic.
I feel so much the continual death of everything and everybody, and have so learned to reconcile myself to it, that the final and official end loses most of its impressiveness.
Apology sends the clearest signal that we have the strength of character to reconcile ourselves with the truth.
... there are few things that can reconcile us fully to our parting with a world of which the longest life can see so little and whose beauties have so extraordinary a variety.
It is the basic principle of Marxism that any attempt to reconcile capital and labor so that they both co-operate in peace and prosperity is a betrayal of communism.
How do I know the past is not a fiction conceived to reconcile the difference between my state of mind and the present.
There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.
I couldn't reconcile what I was being taught at the university of Chicago, the lectures and the books I was being assigned, with what I knew to be true out in the streets.
It's almost impossible to reconcile the realities of how one feels during the day, hour by hour. But I approach things not cynically.
It is very difficult to reconcile the American ideal of a sovereign people capable of owning and managing their own government with an inability to own and manage their own business.
I think that whenever you have got an incoming president of the other side it takes a while for people to reconcile themselves with that new reality.
I am at a loss to reconcile the expensive and glossy production values of this book with the breathtaking inanity of the content.
We do not like our friends the worse because they sometimes give us an opportunity to rail at them heartily. Their faults reconcile us to their virtues.
It's very human to try to put things into boxes, and it's hard for us to reconcile with grey areas, and yet somehow that's the area I find the most poetic, the juiciest.
Comedy has been my way to reconcile with the world. I didn't really set out to do this, but comedy has served as my outlet to address my issues I have with this crazy world.
The poet, like the lover, is a person unable to reconcile what he knows with what he feels. His peculiarity is that he is under a certain compulsion to do so.
But when you have chosen your part, abide by it, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world.
Man must reconcile himself to his natural greatness.... he must not forget that he is a person.
It takes a profound hypocrisy to try to reconcile for others things that you can't reconcile for yourself.
It is easier to say new things than to reconcile those which have already been said.
I think it's very hard to reconcile oneself to the notion that it may not matter what you think if you still want to write.
Living with your decision must be hard. Nothing I or anyone can say will give you any peace. You must reconcile your actions in your heart.
I am trying to be in that alchemical soup of human transformation. I am trying to process, reconcile, forgive, let go, and grieve, when necessary.
Seeing the world differently is one of the toughest incompatibilities to reconcile in a relationship.
Much of Satan's time is spent trying to make you remember what God has already forgotten. Reconcile, rejoice, and look forward.
There is hardly any personal defect... which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.
It's not at all hard to reconcile the two things if you organize your time intelligently. Even when my sons were little, I was working.
Practice makes the Master. You can reconcile what you are and what you want to be.
Ritual which could entail a wedding or brushing one's teeth goes in the direction of life. Through it we reconcile our barbed solitude with rushing, irreducible conditions of life.
Sin is not a stain that I must wash out. What I need to do is ask forgiveness and reconcile myself, not go to the drycleaners. I have to go encounter Jesus who gave his life for me.
Lao Tsu found Taoism easy to reconcile withthe world of human beings, which is interesting because with all the nature imagery, one might think it was in some way antithetical to contempory life.
Contradictions are the impossible chasms that create forever separations. God is the forever bridge that creates impossible reunions.
They gave me a thousand reasons to leave you, but I found a thousand and one reasons to be with you.
Without compassion for a fellow man, for great splendors of our Sister, Mother Earth the humankind will never reconcile with itself.
It's useless to paint a closed door, in order to change its color. The door needs to be open for both sides to change as same.
