The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the…

Let us now peruse our ancient authors, for out of the old fields must come the new corn.

— Edward Coke

Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.

— Ovid

“Pointing to the mutual envy of businessmen and politicians who are often out of their field in each other's area,, the author quotes the…

— Jimmy Breslin

“We are assured that the world is becoming more and more united, is being formed into brotherly communion, by the shortening of distances, by…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Competition of praise inclineth to a reverence of antiquity. For men contend with the living, not with the dead.

— Thomas Hobbes

Call it "womb awe" or even "womb worship" but it's not simple envy. I don't remember even wanting to be a woman. But each…

— Sam Keen

The same old caveman feeling-greed, envy, violence, and mutual hate, which along the way assumed respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, racial struggle, mass struggle,…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Emulation is grief arising from seeing one's self, exceeded or excelled by his concurrent, together with hope to equal or exceed him in time…

— Thomas Hobbes

If we want revivals, we must revive our reverence for the Word of God.

— Charles Spurgeon

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

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

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

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

— Bell Hooks

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