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• To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.

  Stephen Fry

  Mean, Opposites, Adults

  Stephen Fry's BAFTA annual television lecture, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2010.

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• In Christ was united the human and the divine. His mission was to reconcile God to man, and man to God; to unite the finite with the infinite.

  Ellen G. White

  Men, Infinite, Christ

  Ellen G. White (2013). “Ellen G. White Review and Herald Articles - Book I of IV”, p.370, Lulu Press, Inc

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• We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that is alive around us, and reconcile ourselves with our environment.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Giving, Fasting, Mastery

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• Nothing so bolsters our self-confidence and reconciles us with ourselves as the continuous ability to create; to see things grow and develop under our hand, day in, day out.

  Eric Hoffer

  Self Confidence, Hands, Ability

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• Practice makes the Master. You can reconcile what you are and what you want to be.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Practice, Want, Masters

  Source: www.awaken.com

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• Had Christ not risen we could not believe Him to be what He declared Himself when He "made Himself equal with God." But He has risen in the confirmation of all His claims. By it alone, but by it thoroughly, is He manifested as the very Son of God, who has come into the world to reconcile the world to Himself. It is the fundamental fact in the Christian's unwavering confidence in "all the words of this life.

  B. B. Warfield

  Christian, Easter, Believe

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• Good and just society is neither the thesis of capitalism nor the antithesis of communism, but a socially conscious democracy which reconciles the truths of individualism and collectivism.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Democracy, Individualism, Communism

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010). “Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?”, p.216, Beacon Press

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

  Robert K. Massie

  Easy

  Robert K. Massie (2011). “Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman”, p.449, Random House

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

  Mariella Frostrup

  World, Incompatibility, Seeing

  "My partner's negativity gets me down" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2013.

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• In essence, we are reconciled to reconcile.

  Matt Chandler

  Essence

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• Einstein was searching for String Theory. It not only reconciles General Relativity to Quantum Mechanics, but it reconciles Science and the Bible as well.

  Roy H. Williams

  Science, Economy, Mechanic

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• The civil liberty of every mode of worship, and full power given to all of openly and publicly manifesting their opinions and their ideas conduce more easily to corrupt the morals and minds of the people... The Roman Pontiff cannot and ought not to reconcile himself or agree with, progress, liberalism and modern civilization.

  Pope Pius IX

  Civilization, Ideas, People

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• As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught in the middle, seeking to reconcile the paradox of how to make our way upon earth while striving for something more permanent and more profound.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Stars, Animal, Essence

  "Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom". Book by B.K.S. Iyengar (p. 8), September 19, 2006.

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• Forks and spoons have probably done more to reconcile people who cannot agree than guns and bombs ever did

  Theodore Zeldin

  Gun, People, Bombs

  Theodore Zeldin (2012). “An Intimate History Of Humanity”, p.96, Random House

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• In his latest book Marc Ellis asks the defining question for Jewish life today: 'Can injustice, represented by Jewish domination of Jerusalem, be at the heart of the covenant?' Ellis's answer is that the covenant of Israel with God has been shattered by the creation of a state at the expense of Palestinian life in the land. It can only be renewed by a new ethic and practice of justice that reconcile these two people, who have become irrevocably linked together in the land, either for good or for ill.

  Rosemary Radford Ruether

  Book, Heart, Two

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• On the level of the Son there is no answer to the question of good and evil; there is only an incurable separation of the opposites. . . . It seems to me to be the Holy Spirit's task and charge to reconcile and reunite the opposites in the human individual through a special development of the human soul.

  Carl Jung

  Son, Opposites, Evil

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• We have met the enemy and have learned nothing more about him. I have, however, learned some things about myself. There are things men can do to one another that are sobering to the soul. It is one thing to reconcile these things with God, but another to square it with yourself.

  Robert Leckie

  Men, Squares, Soul

  "Fictional character: Robert Leckie". "The Pacific", 2010.

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• It is not indeed certain, that the most refined caution will find a proper time for bringing a man to the knowledge of his own failing, or the most zealous benevolence reconcile him to that judgment by which they are detected; but he who endeavours only the happiness of him whom he reproves will always have either the satisfaction of obtaining or deserving kindness; if he succeeds, he benefits his friend; and if he fails, he has at least the consciousness that he suffers for only doing well.

  Samuel Johnson

  Kindness, Men, Advice

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1857). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.74

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• The effort to reconcile science and religion is almost always made, not by theologians, but by scientists unable to shake off altogether the piety absorbed with their mother's milk.

  H. L. Mencken

  Mother, Science, Effort

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.248, Knopf

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• No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.

  Walter Pater

  Italian, Renaissance, Ancient

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• Reconciliation is a deep practice that we can do with our listening and our mindful speech. To reconcile means to bring peace and happiness to nations, people, and members of our family.... In order to reconcile, you have to possess the art of deep listening.

  Nhat Hanh

  Art, Mean, Order

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “For a Future to Be Possible: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.56, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Never underestimate the power of words to heal and reconcile relationships.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Friendship, Underestimate, Power Of Words

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (2012). “Life's Little Instruction Book: Simple Wisdom and a Little Humor for Living a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.494, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• To reconcile conflicting parties, we must have the ability to understand the suffering of both sides. If we take sides, it is impossible to do the work of reconciliation. And humans want to take sides. That is why the situation gets worse and worse. Are there people who are still available to both sides? They need not do much. They need do only one thing: Go to one side and tell all about the suffering endured by the other side, and go to the other side and tell all about the suffering endured by this side. This is our chance for peace. But how many of us are able to do that?

  Nhat Hanh

  Party, People, Listening

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• 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.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Philosophy, Esoteric, Tradition

  H.P. Blavatsky (2016). “The Secret Doctrine”, p.550, Penguin

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• For Christians, the problem is not how to reconcile homosexuality with scriptural passages that condemn it, but how to reconcile the rejection and punishment of homosexuals with the love of Christ.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Christian, Punishment, Rejection

  William Sloane Coffin “A Passion for the Possible”, Westminster John Knox Press

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