Reverence Quotes

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

— Aristotle

Kill reverence and you've killed the hero in man.

— Ayn Rand

Let a man use great reverence and manners to himself.

— Pythagoras

“The proof comes after belief, not before.”

— Amar Ochani

Woman must not accept; she must challenge.

— Margaret Sanger

“Reverence reduces hostility.”

— Toba Beta

Happiness is reverence for all life.

— Goswami Kriyananda

Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.

— Ignatius of Antioch

Living in the moment brings you a sense of reverence for all of life’s blessings.

— Oprah Winfrey

Reverence for greatness dies out, and is succeeded by base envy of greatness.

— Albert Pike

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

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

— Sophocles

“The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence.

— George Eliot

Some of us who live in arid parts of the world think about water with a reverence others might find excessive.

— Joan Didion

I can never again see a UNITED STATES MARINE without experiencing a feeling of reverence.

— Edward Johnson

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become…

— Albert Schweitzer

I appeal to Amherst men to reiterate the Amherst doctrine that the man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the…

— Calvin Coolidge

Talk to everybody with reverence. Listen to everybody with reverence. Say things with reverence. You will always be happy and graceful.

— Harbhajan Singh Yogi

Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the…

— Francis Bacon

Good design is a great combination of common sense, unusual imagination, clarity of purpose–with a prerequisite knowledge of structure, values, color, aesthetic…

— Millard Sheets

To find oneself living in an age of doubt is not such a curse. There is a kind of reverence in undertaking…

— Deepak Chopra

That a nation's statuary will reflect beliefs and attitudes that are no longer current or congenial hardly needs arguing. In most instances,…

— Howard Jacobson

“I have talked, face to face, with what I reverence, with what I delight in,—with an original, a vigorous, an expanded mind.”

— Charlotte Brontë

As a writer of worship songs, I have a hunger to write deep songs of passionate reverence to God. Yet I'm aware…

— Matt Redman

Uncritical reverence for the Founding Fathers was less ubiquitous while they actually lived. . . . "The Reign of Terror that raged…

— Thomas Paine

“The Almighty is not only at the mountaintops or in the grandeur of galaxies, but in the smallest of details. The rhythm…

— Ajmal, from the book "Borders of the Inner World

Every being has its own interior, its self, its mystery, its numinous aspect. To deprive any being of this sacred quality is…

— Thomas Berry

I had a theoretical reverence and homage for beauty, elegance, gallantry, fascination but had I met those qualities incarnate in masculine shape,…

— Charlotte Bronte

The person who knows a great deal about things but has never learnt to see, tends to be assertive; those who have…

— Gerald Vann

In a pure society, the subject of marriage would not be so often avoided,--from shame and not from reverence, winked out of…

— Henry David Thoreau

Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Let’s think of reverence as awe, as presence in and openness to the world…Try walking around with a child who’s going, ‘Wow,…

— Anne Lamott

Some men look at Constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them, like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.…

— Thomas Jefferson

“We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. And this has been…

— Wendell Berry

I still do mostly listen to CDs. I think that every format really is a different way of listening. If you take…

— Brian Eno

Another form of prayer, called cataphatic, honors and reverences images and feelings and goes through them to God. This form of prayer…

— Gregory A. Boyd

“There may be some truth (atheists) do not need to believe in a god to be good, but then if they do…

— E.A. Bucchianeri

The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In present-day America, expressing reverence for those who serve in uniform is something akin to a religious obligation. Everyone professes to cherish…

— Andrew Bacevich