Reverence Quotes

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The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land… — Stewart Udall
The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and… — Swami Vivekananda
Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now. — Frank Lloyd Wright
We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents. — Mark Twain
Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one… — Yoko Ono
I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
That love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance. Not a bandage for dirty sores. But they donâ€™t know it. Those who… — Ayn Rand
The eyes were hollow and the carven head was broken, but about the high, stern forehead there was a coronal of silver and gold. A… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Those who choose, conduct, present, and accompany the music may influence the spirit of reverence ... more than a speaker does. — Boyd K. Packer
How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, â€œThis is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger… — Carl Sagan
We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency,… — Mark Twain
Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting,… — Albert Schweitzer
The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Functionalism is lethal when it is not balanced by a sense of reverence. Without reverence, there is no sense of presence or wonder. — John O'Donohue
There is a relentless search for the factual and this quest often lacks warmth or reverence. At a certain stage in our life we may… — John O'Donohue
What he loved in horses was what he loved in men, the blood and the heat of the blood that ran them. All his reverence… — Cormac McCarthy
Reverence invites Revelation — Boyd K. Packer
I had a theoretical reverence and homage for beauty, elegance, gallantry, fascination but had I met those qualities incarnate in masculine shape, I should have… — Charlotte Bronte
Even though the discples were not aware of it, the presence was with them while they were reviewing the scriptures together on the road. Henceforth,… — Karen Armstrong
Letâ€™s think of reverence as awe, as presence in and openness to the worldâ€¦Try walking around with a child whoâ€™s going, â€˜Wow, wow! Look at… — Anne Lamott

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