Reverence Quotes

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We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness. — W. E. B. Du Bois
We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion,… — Charles Kingsley
What good is all our busy religion if God isn't in it? What good is it if we've lost majesty, reverence, worship-an awareness of the… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Our forefathers looked upon nature with more reverence and horror, before the world was enlightened by learning and philosophy, and loved to astonish themselves with… — Joseph Addison
We live in an age of science and of abundance. The care and reverence for books as such, proper to an age when no book… — Ezra Pound
Abuse of power isn't limited to 'bad guys' in other nations. It happens in our own country. Those in power get jaded, deluded, and seduced… — Clint Eastwood
As a good picture would come, I would never know exactly what I had done. When you did see it, it would strike you as… — Emmet Gowin
To find oneself living in an age of doubt is not such a curse. There is a kind of reverence in undertaking the quest for… — Deepak Chopra
Reverence is a perception of the soul. Reverence is a natural aspect of authentic empowerment because the soul reveres all of Life. When the personality… — Gary Zukav
One antidote for sexual truancy lies in simply teaching youth the wonder, the miracle, the reverence for the creation of life itself. Life is a… — Sam Levenson
But more impressive than the facts and figures as to height, width, age, etc., are the entrancing beauty and tranquility that pervade the forest, the… — George MacDonald
If men think that a ruler is religious and has a reverence for the Gods, they are less afraid of suffering injustice at his hands. — Aristotle
Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by… — John Updike
Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power… — Albert Schweitzer
Does not every true man feel that he is himself made higher by doing reverence to what is really above him? — Thomas Carlyle
He is likely to remain the one historian of the Sierra; he imported into his view the imagination of the poet and the reverence of… — Robert Underwood Johnson
Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The greatest reverence is due to a child! If you are contemplating a disgraceful act, despise not your child's tender years. — Juvenal
If you set your heart upon philosophy, you must straightway prepare yourself to be laughed at and mocked by many who will say Behold a… — Epictetus
Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die. — Sophocles

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