#reconcile

Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

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A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

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