Top 100 Reconciled Quotes
#1. Like other Americans, I've reconciled myself to the idea that an animal's life has been sacrificed to bring me a meal of pork or chicken. However, industrial meat production - which subjects animals to a life of torture - has escalated the karmic costs beyond reconciliation.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
#2. Whereas scoundrels become reconciled after knifing one another, lovers break up irrevocably over a mere glance or word.
Honore De Balzac
#3. Freedom can reside only in a point of view, a way of looking upon the system of necessity.Surely this is the one freedom that we may attain to: not to be released from physical reality, but to understand reality and ourselves as part of it, and so be reconciled to what we are.
Roger Scruton
#4. There's no question that homophobia is rampant among the world's 1.5 billion Muslims - but that doesn't negate the fact that there are huge groups of Muslims who have easily reconciled their faith and sexual orientation, like LGBT people in other faith communities.
Reza Aslan
#5. When summer opens, I see how fast it matures, and fear it will be short; but after the heats of July and August, I am reconciled, like one who has had his swing, to the cool of autumn.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#6. Land began to be seen as something to be owned privately and exploited for private interests, and never was entirely reconciled with the old ideas that land should be utilized in common for the good of all.
Neil Abercrombie
#7. If that sovereignty and their freedom cannot be reconciled, which will they take? They will cast your sovereignty in your face. No body will be argued into slavery.
Bernard Bailyn
#9. Christ took our sins and the sins of the whole world as well as the Father's wrath on his shoulders, and he has drowned them both in himself so that we are thereby reconciled to God and become completely righteous.
Martin Luther
#10. But later, by the help of the water of new birth, the stain of former years was washed away, and a light from above - serene and pure - was infused into my reconciled heart. Then through the Spirit breathed from heaven, a second birth restored me to a new man.
Cyprian
#11. We are ambassadors for Christ; certain that God is appealing through us, we plead on Christ's behalf: "Be reconciled to God." 2 Corinthians 5:20
Beth Moore
#12. One can only call that youth healthful which refuses to be reconciled to old ways and which, foolishly or shrewdly, combats the old. This is nature's charge and all progress hinges upon it.
Anton Chekhov
#13. I am reconciled to my death, but I detest the mode.
John Andre
#14. If you don't want to have to kill or capture every bad guy in the country, you have to reintegrate those who are willing to be reconciled and become part of the solution instead of a continued part of the problem. And then, above all, the resources.
David Petraeus
#15. If you and sin are friends, you and God are not yet reconciled.
J.C. Ryle
#16. An advanced human rights friendly Constitution is fine and well - but what good is it if it is not put into practice? The government says it cherishes the principles in the SA Constitution, and yet acts in a manner which cannot be reconciled with that very Constitution.
Christina Engela
#17. Christianity and communism cannot be reconciled;
they are opposing systems.
Frederick Nymeyer
#18. But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
#19. The gospel is the announcement that God has reconciled us to Himself by sending His Son Jesus to die as a substitute for our sins, and that all who repent and believe have eternal life in Him.
J.D. Greear
#21. Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause. I had hoped that liberal and enlightened thought would have reconciled the Christians so that their religious fights would not endanger the peace of Society.
George Washington
#22. The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations.
Lech Walesa
#23. I never see my movies. When they're on television, I click them away. Hollywood created an image, and I long ago reconciled myself with it. I was the French cliche.
Louis Jourdan
#25. Watch out for the people who say that all is good between them and God but have no interest in being reconciled with the people whom their sin has injured.
James MacDonald
#26. For what is God's will, but that we should be reconciled to ourselves.
Regina Ullmann
#27. A conceptual scheme is never discarded merely because of a few stubborn facts with which it cannot be reconciled; a conceptual scheme is either modified or replaced by a better one, never abandoned with nothing left to take its place.
James Bryant Conant
#28. The rules of scientific investigation always require us, when we enter the domains of conjecture, to adopt that hypothesis by which the greatest number of known facts and phenomena may be reconciled.
Matthew Fontaine Maury
#29. Man wants to be reconciled to God; wants to know that the past is forgiven.
Matthew Simpson
#30. The conviction that, in Christ, God has reconciled all humanity and all creation leaves no room for nationalism.
C. Christopher Smith
#31. Surely we all dealt with and reconciled ourselves to a life many of whose features were out of our control. It was part of living in a world full of other people with other interests.
David Foster Wallace
#32. The difference between an unconverted and a converted man is not that the one has sins and the other has none; but that the one takes part with his cherished sins against a dreaded God and the other takes part with a reconciled God against his hated sins.
William Arnot
#33. We must be reconciled, for what we left behind us can never be ours again.
Wallace Stegner
#34. Origins are of the greatest importance. We are almost reconciled to having a cold when we remember where we caught it.
Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
#35. The General belonged to the learned type of military men who believed that liberal and humane views can be reconciled with their profession. But being by nature a kind and intelligent man, he soon felt the impossibility of such a reconciliation.
Leo Tolstoy
#36. Lovers are angry, reconciled, entreat, thank, appoint, and finally speak all things, by their.
Michel De Montaigne
#37. It is not after we were reconciled by the blood of his Son that God began to love us, but before the foundation of the world.
John Calvin
#38. When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and concepts will have lost their meaning, and we will no longer have to use them.
Michelangelo Antonioni
#39. Once we are reconciled to God, the estrangement is over, the hostilities have ended, and the peace is sealed for eternity.
R.C. Sproul
#40. You are not reconciled to God if you are unreconciled with your fellow human beings.
Corrie Ten Boom
#41. The minute we get reconciled to a person, how willing we are to throw aside little needless punctilios and pronounce his name right.
Mark Twain
#42. Nature photography ... that acknowledges what is wrong, is admittedly sometimes hard to bear - it has to encompass our mistakes. Yet in the long run, it is important; in order to endure our age of apocalypse, we have to be reconciled not only to avalanche and hurricane, but to ourselves.
Robert Adams
#43. 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
#44. Only a few people seem to realize that social harmony and peace with nature, between people, and within the individual only can come about when the material and spiritual realms are reconciled.
Fethullah Gulen
#45. At the center of the Christian tradition since the first church have been a number who insist that history is not tragic, hell is not forever, and love, in the end, wins and all will be reconciled to God.
Rob Bell
#46. An adversarial family law system raises the stakes unnecessarily high, exacerbates the antagonism of the couples concerned, and is directly responsible for making it impossible for couples who would otherwise have reconciled to do so.
Louis De Bernieres
#47. That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.
Sarah Dessen
#48. Strange the workings of the heart. One could go on for years, habituated to loss, reconciled to it, and then, in a moments unwary thought, the pain resurfaced, sharp and raw as a fresh wound.
Donna Woolfolk Cross
#49. Neat trick: to be roused to ambition and reconciled to one's mediocrity at the same time.
Mason Cooley
#50. The past and future / Are conquered, and reconciled.
T. S. Eliot
#51. Cruz made the sign of the cross over them. He hefted his rifle onto his shoulder and walked away. His warriors followed, blessed by the Lord, reconciled, holy in this day He had made, and ready to shoot.
Luis Alberto Urrea
#52. Accustomed like the white blackbird to the loneliness of eccentricity yet never quite reconciled to it, they found in each other's oddness a most comforting compatibility.
Elizabeth Goudge
#53. One of the greatest values of controversy is its revealing nature. The real issues at stake come into the open and have the possibility of being reconciled.
Mary Parker Follett
#54. We each after a while have to become reconciled to what it is that our talents and appetites lead us to.
Tobias Wolff
#55. The first time you are reconciled to the terrible unfairness of disappointment, you are getting old.
Mary Lee Settle
#56. God himself is pleading through us for people to be reconciled to him, if we prepare our body for him
Sunday Adelaja
#57. Growing old with the woman I love would be my first choice, but dying reconciled with her isn't a bad second.
Brent Weeks
#58. The faith of the gospel is called the knowledge of God's grace; for no one has ever tasted of the gospel but the man that knew himself to be reconciled to God, and took hold of the salvation that is held forth in Christ.
John Calvin
#59. Since science and religion provide two different perspectives on the human situation, they must ultimately be able to be reconciled.
Jeremy Griffith
#60. God the Father has reconciled His created but fallen world through the death of His Son, and renews it into a Kingdom of God by His Spirit.
Herman Bavinck
#62. A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.
Friedrich Schiller
#63. Various religions offer a variety of theories about life, death, and eternity. And yet, as different as all religions are, they share one common characteristic: they teach that the way to be reconciled to God is through works and rituals.
Robert Jeffress
#64. Catching a glimpse of her reflection in the mirror, she briefly wished once again that she was taller, sexier and bigger in the chest. Sighing, she reconciled herself with the knowledge that if she were, the world would never be able to live with her.
Pamela Murdaugh-Smith
#65. Peace on earth, and mercy mild
God and sinners reconciled.
Charles Wesley
#66. The years have simply reconciled us to the fact that we are all here for the transformation.
John Eldredge
#67. Evelyn puts one arm around Tobias and touches his face with the other, pressing her cheek to his. She says something to him. He smiles at her when he pulls away. Mother and son, reconciled. I am not sure it's wise.
Veronica Roth
#68. For a while, I thought I was going mad. At last, I became reconciled to my despair.
The medications helped, too, I thought, sir.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#69. The idea that there is only one way to be reconciled with God has its origins in the Old Testament.
Robert Jeffress
#70. Comedy mocks the vanity of visions of rational control. The person who can joke amidst a confrontation with evil, like the quick-witted Spider-Man, must be reconciled to the permanent imperfections of a corrupted world populated by fallen creatures.
Peter Leithart
#71. The truly tragic kind of suffering is the kind produced and defiantly insisted upon by the hero himself so that, instead of making him better, it makes him worse and when he dies he is not reconciled to the law but defiant, that is, damned. Lear is not a tragic hero, Othello is.
W. H. Auden
#72. A belief in God and a belief in astrology cannot be reconciled.
Jerry Falwell
#73. Middle-age has its compensations. You feel no need to do what you do not like. You are no longer ashamed of yourself; you are reconciled to being what you are, and you do not much mind what people think of you.
Selina Hastings, Countess Of Huntingdon
#74. Perhaps she was both child and woman, darkness and light, past and present, life and death - all the opposites contained and reconciled in her.
Paule Marshall
#75. There are two laws discreteNot reconciled,Law for man, and law for thing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#76. He has reconciled you by His physical body through His death, to present you holy, faultless, and blameless before Him. Colossians 1:22
Beth Moore
#77. My mother and I split ways when I was very young and have never really reconciled.
Drew Barrymore
#78. He who forgiveth, and is reconciled unto his enemy,
shall receive his reward from God; for he loveth not the unjust doers.
Thomas Szasz
#79. The reconciling gospel is always at the forefront of the church's social action, because a full belly is not better than a reconciled soul.
Matt Chandler
#80. I have always been reconciled to the fact that I was born a bibliomaniac, never have I sought a cure, and my dearest friends have been drawn from those likewise suffering from book madness.
Lawrence Clark Powell
#81. Even if Lucretius was wrong, and the soul is immortal, it is nevertheless steadily changing its interests and its possessions.Our lives are mortal if our soul is not; and the sentiment which reconciled Lucretius to death is as much needed if we are to face many deaths, as if we are to face only one.
George Santayana
#82. Success went fizzily to Bernard's head, and in the process completely reconciled him (as any good intoxicant should do) to a world which, up till then, he had found very unsatisfactory. In so far as it recognized him as important, the order of things was good.
Aldous Huxley
#83. Writing a book 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 S. Churchill
#84. AND IF WE ARE TO STRIVE FOR A BETTER FUTURE, MUSTN'T WE BE FAMILIAR AND RECONCILED WITH OUR PAST?
Jonathan Safran Foer
#85. Jesus would be another wise man or philosopher like Socrates if it were not for three words. With the declaration of these words the message of the good news of Jesus Christ changed from "fanatical audacity", to the fantastic reality of a reconciled relationship and eternal hope. "HE IS RISEN!
Tom Barton
#86. My mom and my dad were married 56 years, and the fact that I reconciled with my dad I think made their marriage a little bit better as well.
Larry Elder
#87. He has been reconciled to death during the war and then suddenly the war was over and there was a next day and a next day and a next day. Part of him never adjusted to having a future.
Kate Atkinson
#88. Love can forbear, and Love can forgive ... but Love can never be reconciled to an unlovely object ... He can never therefore be reconciled to your sin, because sin itself is incapable of being altered; but He may be reconciled to your person because that may be restored and Loved.
Thomas Traherne
#89. He thought that all human religion and philosophy could be reconciled. That the quest for knowledge was the highest good; and that somewhere, between all the wars and debate, there was some universal truth he could discover which would bring humanity together.
Elizabeth Hunter
#90. If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated.
Erich Fromm
#91. That is part of our critique of some of the charity and service work is that we can still keep relationships at a distance by creating programs that offer services but we don't really create a reconciled community.
Shane Claiborne
#92. Art is a discovery of harmony, a vision of disparities reconciled, or shape beneath confusion.
Robert Adams
#93. We may abandon a holistic, metaphysical ideal of natural law reconciled with cultural configurations; but we cannot abandon a vision of a humanity freed from such pathologies without simultaneously siding with the worst kind of system-reproductive education.
Mark Murphy
#94. Those authors into whose hands nature has placed a magic wand, with which they no sooner touch us than we forget the unhappiness in life, than the darkness leaves our soul, and we are reconciled to existence, should be placed among the benefactors of the human race.
Denis Diderot
#95. ... and he wasn't reconciled to dying. Dora told him he was going to a better world. "Mebbe, mebbe," says poor Ben, "but I'm sorter used to the imperfections of this one.
L.M. Montgomery
#96. To become reconciled to a friend with whom you have broken, is a form of weakness; and you pay the penalty of it when he takes the first opportunity of doing precisely the very thing which brought about the breach.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#97. How else can we become reconciled, except one individual at a time? This Jesus you seek did not come to address nations. He washed the wounds of lepers. He dined with sinners. He healed all who came to him. One person at a time.
Janette Oke
#98. How shall the heart be reconciled / To its feast of losses?
Stanley Kunitz
#99. Every aspect of the way God views and saves sinners is designed to undermine racism and lead to a reconciled and redeemed humanity from every people group in the world.
John Piper
#100. Heloise long ago reconciled herself to the idea that all is fair in love and war, which is just another way of saying that nothing in life is ever fair, because life is love and war.
Laura Lippman
