Reverence Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments.

The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.

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.

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

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

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.

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries.