Reverence Quotes

472 quotes by 338 authors

I can never again see a UNITED STATES MARINE without experiencing a feeling of reverence. — Edward Johnson
Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life and that to destroy, harm,… — Albert Schweitzer
Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God. — Mark Twain
I bow in reverence before the emotions of every melted heart....The more intense the delight in their presence, the more poignant the impression of their… — James Martineau
When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his… — Thomas Jefferson
We come to recognize that playfulness, as a philosophical stance, can be very serious indeed; and moreover, that it possesses an unfailing capacity to arouse… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there… — Henry Beston
Ethics cannot be based upon our obligations toward people, but they are complete and natural only when we feel this Reverence for Life and the… — Albert Schweitzer
Thought cannot avoid the ethical or reverence and love for all life. It will abandon the old confined systems of ethics and be forced to… — Albert Schweitzer
The optimal choice that you can make in any situation is to grow spiritually. That means intending to create harmony, sharing, cooperation and reverence for… — Gary Zukav
Talk to everybody with reverence. Listen to everybody with reverence. Say things with reverence. You will always be happy and graceful. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
In order to the attaining of all useful knowledge this is most necessary, that we fear God; we are not qualified to profit by the… — Matthew Henry
A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of… — Carl Sagan
Kill reverence and you've killed the hero in man. — Ayn Rand
The emotional reaction in the peak experience has a special flavor of wonder, of awe, of reverence, of humility and surrender before the experience as… — Abraham Maslow
Call it "womb awe" or even "womb worship" but it's not simple envy. I don't remember even wanting to be a woman. But each of… — Sam Keen
We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. And out of it we get an aggregation which we consider a… — Mark Twain
I learned to cross the threshold of my studio with reverence, as though I were entering a shrine set apart for me to become co-creator… — Walter Russell

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