Reconcile Quotations

When everyone in the world spoke the same language, God came down in judgment, breaking the world apart. But at just the right time, he came down again, this time to reconcile that sinful world to himself.

The reality in the neighborhood that I live in is: if I don't constantly reconcile what I have against what other people don't, either I need to leave and be around other people who have what I have, or I'm constantly engaged in this kind of dynamic flow of opportunity and sharing.

I'm not sure many writers are trying to reconcile all the things that are separated in our culture - body and mind, urban and pastoral, lyricism and hardboiled, men and women, joy and grief. I tried to do quite a lot, but I wanted to create a serious work of literature.

A tendency could not but arise to reconcile with Christian profession a good many modes of life, enjoyments, occupations, social actions and customs, from which the first Christians had recoiled.

Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It's a little easier if you've got a god to forgive you.

Am I the only one who can't seem to reconcile the grand canyon of cognitive dissonance I feel when people with much more important jobs than I have manage to score much lengthier times off?

It's hard to reconcile my personal beliefs with an entire institution like the Church or the Republicans. Or with people within those political persuasions who have such different ideologies but confess the same things I confess spiritually.

I needed to step away from music because the truth was I couldn't be the dad I wanted to be to my kids. My truth was that I could not reconcile the two worlds - the entertainment world and being the dad I wanted to be in the present. You can't substitute time, you just can't.

If you cannot reconcile the difference between the elite that stay behind the scene and the right of the people, that's going to be forever chaos. It's time to compromise, to allow more democracy. Those who are stay behind the scenes must hand off and observe the law.

The Occultists, however, know that the traditions of Esoteric Philosophy must be the right ones, simply because they are the most logical, and reconcile every difficulty.

It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.

How can you possibly reconcile the justice of God with the idea that only through Christ can you be saved? Most of the world lives and dies and never even hears of Christ. There has to be some mechanism set up for all those who have ever lived to have an opportunity to hear of Christ.

I believe in the goodness of man, and I believe we're all connected and that connection is through God. We have our differences. But if we will recognize that we like each other, that we are more common than uncommon, we will work toward what needs to be done to reconcile that.

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

People look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he's ever read, and another person will say it's absolutely idiotic. I mean, there's no way to reconcile those two things. You just have to forget the whole business of what people are saying.

The hypothesis of matter's being at first evenly spread through the heavens is, in my opinion, inconsistent with the hypothesis of innate gravity without a supernatural power to reconcile them, and therefore, it infers a deity.

The most difficult idea to reconcile in war is the notion that anything is going to be solved by killing a stranger, or in risking your life for a cause anchored in some distant political arena.

The speed of change today is faster than the human psyche seems able to handle, and it's increasingly difficult to reconcile the rhythms of our personal lives with the rapidity of a twenty-four-hour news cycle.

We believe that only when you can reconcile with God and get clear with him that he will empower us to unify and change the realities under which we live.

We grow tired of ourselves, much more of other people. Use may in part reconcile us to our own tediousness, but we do not adopt that of others on the same paternal principle. We may be willing to sell a story twice, never to hear one more than once.

While it takes at least two to reconcile, it only takes one to forgive.

There is hardly any personal defect... which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.

There is a resurgence of the nation-state in Europe. These nationalist and protectionist instincts are hard to reconcile with the idea of European integration.

What we do is that if they believe there's an issue, we have to take this information and reconcile it. We go out there and do a complete streetlight count. If we owe the city, we will pay them back.

Reason can never reconcile one to life: nothing allays the wants one cannot explain.

Many new lovers and spouses struggle to reconcile themselves with their partners' relationship history, but it's an insecurity I left behind in my 20s.

My early colleagues and myself helped create the life styles of Americans and, by osmosis, of the rest of the world. I found it difficult to reconcile success with humility. I tried it first, but it meant avoiding the very essence of my career - total exhilaration and the ecstasy of creativity.

More and more these days I find myself pondering how to reconcile my net income with my gross habits.

Perhaps you need someone with a profile like (Morales') to reconcile this very fractured country. Everybody wants him to succeed, even the elites.

I was sort of growing up at a time of really rapidly expanding ecological consciousness. It was a time of reckoning when people were talking about how the Everglades was on life support. I was always trying to reconcile it as a kid.

I am disappointed that we were not able to find a way to reconcile the freedoms we hold so dear with the sanctity of the site.

I have spent seven of the 12 years I have been married a victim of political persecution. I must be the first male spouse being held hostage by a regime. I accept this, as Pakistan has traditional elements who find it hard to reconcile with a man whose wife works and who other men salute perforce of her office.

Free societies, which allow differences to speak and be heard, and live by intermarriage, commerce, and free migration, and democratic societies, which convert enemies into adversaries and reconcile differences without resort to violence, are societies in which the genocidal temptation is unlikely and even inconceivable.

From a technical standpoint the markets are a little oversold. There's tinder for the fire if the markets pick it up. Investors have to reconcile themselves that they're never going to find the bottom.

For these charities to attract and retain quality leaders, they need to pay them a reasonable salary. But I understand donor concerns. It's hard for them to reconcile the large salaries. But we tell donors to look at it in perspective of how the charity is doing. Are they meeting their goals? If you see a high CEO salary and an underperforming charity then, yes, it's better to steer clear.

There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to

It is pretty shocking that governmental interference into our rights and free speech takes place in the U.S., ... It's hard to reconcile this with the 'land of the free' and the 'home of the brave.'

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.

I was able to setup the system so that I get a full set of account numbers and contact information for each payment. It used to take me hours to reconcile all of the receipts. Now it is basically automatic.

We need peace between the government and the SLA and we need tribal reconciliation. There is no need to wait for a result in Abuja. You can start here. At some point you have to stop the killing and reconcile among the tribes.

We're also trying to reconcile positions on different issues such as aid and trade. As the largest provider of development aid to the Third World, and the largest trading partner for developing countries, we feel the EU is quite well-placed to play a bridging role.

When you see it in summer, it's just beautiful, and then you read the plaques about how 2,000 men died on this spot in 20 minutes. To reconcile how it looks today, the beauty of it, with what actually happened made a big impression on me, and I decided I had to do something one day.

This trial can divide or heal. Unless it is seen as absolutely fair, and fair in fact, it will divide rather than reconcile Iraq.

We will have to take a look at this and reconcile this input to our recommendations. This is valuable information.

I urge my colleagues to pick leaders who can both reconcile and discipline, who can work together and communicate effectively.

The whole history of calendar-making is that of successive attempts to reconcile the irreconcilable, and the numberless systems of intercalated months, and the like, are thus of minor scientific interest.

Although I understand Gov. Pataki's decision, I am disappointed that we were not able to find a way to reconcile the freedoms we hold so dear with the sanctity of the site,

Although I understand Governor Pataki's decision, I am disappointed that we were not able to find a way to reconcile the freedoms we hold so dear with the sanctity of the site.

They hadn't done bank records, so nobody could tell you exactly how much cash they had on hand. Nobody could reconcile the payroll accounts. Nobody could tell you how many employees they had.

This plan is necessary to save the Jewish people for the long-term, ... Anyone who knows our history understands that we've never had an Arab partner. Every Zionist move to reconcile with the Arabs failed, so the borders of the Jewish state have to be consolidated in the best way possible.

It's an unfortunate irony that state leaders were unable to reconcile their differences, while voters - who are often deeply split along partisan lines - were very much in agreement. This was an opportunity to give the public something it collectively wanted.

It remains impossible to reconcile Sinn Fein's rhetoric for peace with the IRA's preparations for murder,

It's hard to see how you can reconcile what the Senate is likely to do and what the House has done. My guess is we won't see a major change this year.

It's hard to reconcile the scientific principles of freedom of exploration, testing hypotheses and evaluating evidence with the tyrannical rhetoric coming from some scientific elites who want to squelch the teaching of intelligent design alongside evolutionary theory.

Democracy, not various forms of dictatorship, is the system best equipped to reconcile these values.

That initial thing was disbelief and then anger, extreme anger. I mean I actually got angry with God. That's the ultimate anger. But we've since been able to reconcile ourselves to the fact that we didn't cause the situation and we can't correct the situation. So, we're just trusting God to help us survive as well as help the victims' families survive this.

The big issue is going to be helping him reconcile the demands of the society he represents with the rules of the game in international relations and in the market.

It's hard for me to reconcile that someone doesn't know that they have steroids in their body. I'm extraordinarily skeptical,

It's difficult to reconcile these colossal profits with the fact that some of the most vulnerable people in society can't heat their homes and industry is struggling to keep going.

No matter what has taken place, if God can reconcile our marriage, he can reconcile any relationship whatsoever.

They were trying to reconcile during the fall, no doubt about it. They were seen in public, but something happened over the holidays that made this whole thing blow up, and both sides agreed that this divorce has to go through.

The need for reconciliation in Iraq is real. If we do not reconcile the parties in Iraq, elections alone are not going to resolve their problems,

In the end, public financing is kind of a fraud. It really doesn't handle the claim of corruption or claim of inequality à in the end it still doesn't reconcile any of the issues, it doesn't take care of lobbyists.

It has such a forward look to it, it's hard to reconcile that with a five-week career.

Can you reconcile the Scott Peterson you know with the person who could have done this?

I cannot reconcile monitoring certain people for no reason other than their religion with the freedom of religion we have here in America.

I am not happy with the sticker price that we got. Part of the problem with that is, we haven't been able to reconcile those numbers.

habit does much to reconcile us to unpleasantness ...

If we can exit a relationship, pressure to reconcile lessens; if we must live with those who have wronged us, we are pushed to reconcile.

Seeing the world differently is one of the toughest incompatibilities to reconcile in a relationship.

It is easier to say new things than to reconcile those which have already been said.

And no sin offering, whereof any of the blood is brought into the tabernacle of the congregation to reconcile withal in the holy place, shall be eaten: it shall be burnt in the fire.

The conflict comes when companies try to reconcile what software says they should be doing with the way they've always done things. Companies that spend millions of dollars on ERP software would like to think that the software works for them and not the other way around.

... 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.

When a maniac is at the door, feuding brothers reconcile.

Then you must reconcile yourself to the fact that something is always hurt by any change. If you do this, you will not be hurt yourself.

Science explains the world, but only Art can reconcile us to it.

The love of power and the power to attract love were not easy to reconcile.

We must reconcile ourselves to a season of failures and fragments.

Habit will reconcile us to everything but change

Custom reconciles us to everything.

It becomes still more difficult to reconcile Japanese action with prudence or even sanity. What kind of people do they think we are?

A wife is a gift bestowed upon man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise

There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.

What humanity abhors, custom reconciles and recommends to us.

The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.

Faith is, necessary to explain anything, and to reconcile the foreknowledge of God with human evil.