Reverence Quotes

There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for actors.

There is reverence that we owe to everything in human shape.

Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.

Above all things, reverence yourself.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

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.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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