For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. The two things that nearly all of us have… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I cannot assume emotions I do not feel, and must describe Jerusalem as I found it. Since being here, I have read… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
The mystic reverence, the religious allegiance, which are essential to a true monarchy, are imaginative sentiments that no legislature can manufacture in… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
The ethic of Reverence for Life prompts us to keep each other alert to what troubles us and to speak and act… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
As with all great teachers, his curriculum was an insignificant part of what he communicated. From him you didn't learn a subject,… — William Alexander Percy Copy Share Image
Love, when it is pure, has a revitalizing effect upon others, and in the presence of a truly loving person others grow… — Vatsyayana Copy Share Image
"Respecting" means concerning or with reference to. But it also means with respect~ that is "reverence," "good-will," "regard" to. Taking into account… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
I would sooner perish for ever than stoop down before a Being who may have power to crush me, but whom my… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
When we must pay the true price for the depletion of nature’s gifts, materials will become more precious to us, and economic… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
Modern materialists and religious extremists alike lack the spiritual animistic reverence for non-human beings that every culture once understood as a given. — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
The Jews' guilt of the crucifixion of Jesus consigned them to perpetual servitude, and, like Cain, they are to be wanderers and… — Pope Innocent III Copy Share Image
“It's good to be cynical," he said. "That is, if you know when to stop. Most of the things that we're all… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Never wade through the pretty ripples of perpetually flowing rivers, until you have looked at their lovely waters, and prayed to them,… — Hesiod Copy Share Image
But the most deplorable effect of all, is that diminution of attachment and reverence, which steals into the hearts of the people,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The president of the United States, whoever it is, deserves a certain level of reverence and respect just because of the office… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
If we perceived life with reverence, we would stand in awe at the experience of physical life and walk the earth in… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is difficult to grasp the immensity and significance of the extreme reverence paid to the Goddess over a period of (at… — Merlin Stone Copy Share Image
Reverence is an emotion that we can nurture in our very young children, respect is an attitude that we instill in our… — Zoe Weil Copy Share Image
Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous.… — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
