Reverence Quotes

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.

Playing Christ, I began to feel shut away from the world. A newspaper became one of my biggest luxuries. I noticed that some of my close friends began treating me with reverence.

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.

One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

LET us honour the King by cherishing respectful Sentiments concerning him; speaking of him with Affection, with Esteem and Reverence; and by promoting a like Spirit and Conduct in others.

We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.

It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.

Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?

I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress.

I demand for the unmarried mother, as a sacred channel of life, the same reverence and respect as for the married mother; for Maternity is a cosmic thing and once it has come to pass, our conversation must not be permitted to blaspheme it.

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.

That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth.

A discipline I have observed is an attitude of love and reverence to people.

Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.

If only your pure and clean mind could touch me, dear Haydn, nobody has a greater reverence for you than I have.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.

The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures.

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

If you see a philosopher determining all things by means of right reason, him you shall reverence: he is a heavenly being and not of this earth.

Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.