Men are swayed more by fear than by 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…

— Aristotle

“To-day the majority of the great men who have swayed men's minds no longer have altars, but they have statues, or their portraits are…

— Gustave Le Bon

“The nations of the earth are mostly swayed by fear—fear of the sort that a little cheap oratory turns easily to rage, hate, and…

— Joseph Conrad

“Few things are more frightening than the thought of your god coming to life. There is no such thing as privacy between a deity…

— Ilona Andrews

Even as the church must fear Christ Jesus, so must the wives also fear their husbands. And this inward fear must be shewed by…

— John Dod

“Where there is reverence, there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear has a wider scope than…

— Jeff Wheeler

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

— Socrates

“His function is to act as a focusing point for love, fear, and reverence, emotions which are more easily felt towards an individual than…

— George Orwell

In order to the attaining of all useful knowledge this is most necessary, that we fear God; we are not qualified to profit by…

— Matthew Henry

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for…

— Thomas Jefferson

Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most…

— Aristotle

... we need to interrogate "reverence," for idolization can be another way one is objectified and not really taken seriously.

— Bell Hooks

We must turn back to God. We have thrown God out of our homes, schools, colleges and universities and the vacuum so created has…

— Dada J P Vaswani

As we contemplate with reverence and awe how our Savior embraces us, comforts us, and heals us, let us commit to become His hands,…

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn…

— Calvin Coolidge