Reverence Quotes

472 quotes by 332 authors

Above all things, reverence yourself. — Pythagoras
We who are privileged to be in these chambers today can view the challenges we face as opportunities, not as reasons for despair. We can… — Tom McCall
The true Christians are the true citizens, lofty of purpose, resolute in endeavor, ready for a hero's deeds, but never looking down on their task… — Theodore Roosevelt
I cannot assume emotions I do not feel, and must describe Jerusalem as I found it. Since being here, I have read the accounts of… — Bayard Taylor
Selfless giving is friendliness. An attitude towards life, a reverence for life. It is one of the highest of all ways. — Frederick Lenz
Amid countless everyday miracles, I come in contact with something greater than myself and realize I am a part of it... I move in wonder… — John Paul Caponigro
We should pay as much reverence to youth as we should to age; there are points in which you young folks are altogether our superiors:… — William Makepeace Thackeray
God has such a deep reverence for our freedom that he'd rather let us freely go to Hell than be compelled to go to Heaven. — Desmond Tutu
The effect of our knowledge rather ought to be, first, to teach us reverence and fear; and, secondly, to induce us, under its guidance and… — John Calvin
What I do know is that Charlie Hebdo cartoonists have been converted into the closest thing the West has to religious-like martyrs in the war… — Glenn Greenwald
Reverence the gods, and help men. Short is life. — Marcus Aurelius
I would sooner perish for ever than stoop down before a Being who may have power to crush me, but whom my heart forbids me… — James Anthony Froude
It is one thing to fear God as threatening, with a holy reverence, and another to be afraid of the evil threatened. — John Owen
Humility, a sense of reverence before the sons of heaven of all the prizes that a mortal man might win, these, I say, are wisest;… — Euripides
Dear Lord and Father of mankind, Forgive our foolish ways! Re-clothe us in our rightful mind, In purer lives thy service find, In deeper reverence… — John Greenleaf Whittier
Here's the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family, which is why a child born today of unmarried parents in Sweden has… — Elizabeth Gilbert
I guess I was raised in a household with a lot of reverence for the physical sanctity of books. You didn't destroy books. — Lev Grossman
The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and… — Calvin Coolidge
Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us? — William O. Douglas
It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence. — Desiderius Erasmus

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