#reconcile

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

#ancient #attempt #century #certain #christianity

The exchange program is the thing that reconciles me to all the difficulties of political life. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#exchange #life #me #political #political life

The Life of Pi' timelessly encapsulates an objectively true & real meme that God is Love and seeks out those He calls unto himself." ~R. Alan Woods [2013] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#r-alan-woods #reconcile #reconciliation #the-life-of-pi #life

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

#adult #apparently #cherish #conflicting #constantly

The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy. ↗

— Ken MacLeod

#combined #complete #determinism #hard #human

It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

#cannot #change #come #committed #crimes

But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#culture #democracy #foremost #i #i do

I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women. ↗

— Louis XIV

#europe #i #reconcile #sooner #than

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

— C. S. Lewis

#entire #hidden #marriage #reconciles #sexes

Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody. ↗