Reverence Quotes

472 quotes by 332 authors

How necessary it is to cultivate a spirit of joy. It is a psychological truth that the physical acts of reverence and devotion make one… — Dorothy Day
Reverence is a good thing, and part of its value is that the more we revere a man, the more sharply are we struck by… — Max Beerbohm
When we die to something, something comes alive within us. If we die to self, charity comes alive; if we die to pride, service comes… — Fulton J. Sheen
Reverence makes it possible to be whole, though ignorant. It is the wholeness of understanding. — Wendell Berry
It is a wonderful thing to see a first-rate philosopher at prayer. Tough-minded thinking and tenderhearted reverence are friends, not enemies. We have for too… — Soren Kierkegaard
One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down. — Pauline Kael
The human venture depends absolutely on this quality of awe and reverence and joy in the Earth and all that lives and grows upon the… — Thomas Berry
When one has reverence for life, one will never do anything to harm, hinder, or destroy life. Instead one bends every effort to help life… — Wilferd Peterson
Let a person only approach his or her own self with a deep respect, even reverence for all that the creative soul, the God-mystery within… — D. H. Lawrence
Children, we must cultivate reverence towards all great masters, monks and gurus. — Mata Amritanandamayi
I demand for the unmarried mother, as a sacred channel of life, the same reverence and respect as for the married mother; for Maternity is… — Ben Lindsey
Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility. — Dale Dauten
At the beginning, Lincoln was so inexperienced he had reverence for military expertise, not realizing that there wasn't any military expertise, that the most anybody… — David Herbert Donald
If we had reverence for our life, our life would take at once religious form. But as it is, in our filthy irreverence, it remains… — D. H. Lawrence
This doctrine ['that the condition of man cannot be ameliorated, that what has been must ever be, and that to secure ourselves where we are… — Thomas Jefferson
Sometimes all that saves me is being willing to make mistakes. There are projects that strike me as so beautiful, important, complicated, or just plain… — Katherine Dunn
At every moment of his life the Shoshone must be careful to observe the complicated folkways of his group, to do reverence to superhuman powers,… — Peter Farb
Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and… — Louise Imogen Guiney
It seems to me one cannot sit down in that place [the Round Reading room of the British Museum] without a heart full of grateful… — William Makepeace Thackeray
This Sacrament really contains You, O my God, You whom the Angels adore, in whose presence the Spirits and mighty Powers tremble. Oh! if we… — Angela of Foligno

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