Reverence Quotes
472 Reverence quotes by 332 unique authors
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Living in the moment brings you a sense of reverence for all of life’s blessings.
— Oprah Winfrey
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Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science. It is as impossible to live without reverence as it is without joy.
— Henry Beston
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You have the greatest soul, the noblest nature, the sweetest, most loving heart I have ever known, and my love, my reverence, my admiration for…
— Woodrow Wilson
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The thought that, insignificant as she was, she yet might do some good, made her very careful of her acts and words, and so anxious…
— Louisa May Alcott
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The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Everyone has the best of feelings towards mankind in general, but not towards the individual man. We'll kill men, but we want to save mankind.…
— Karel Capek
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In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.
— Alain de Botton
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What you encounter, recognize or discover depends to a large degree on the quality of your approach. Many of the ancient cultures practiced careful rituals…
— John O'Donohue
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God will not hold us responsible to understand the mysteries of election, predestination, and the divine sovereignty. The best and safest way to deal with…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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It is their nature, beautiful and simple. That you would destroy such beings, Mr. Lincoln, such superior creatures, seems madness to me.†“That you speak…
— Seth Grahame-Smith
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How I treat a brother or sister from day to day, how I react to the sin-scarred wino on the street, how I respond to…
— Brennan Manning
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I always feel a certain sense of reverence in libraries, even small city ones that smell like homeless internet users.
— Ken Jennings
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When we must pay the true price for the depletion of nature’s gifts, materials will become more precious to us, and economic logic will reinforce,…
— Charles Eisenstein
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Gratitude bestows reverence.....changing forever how we experience life and the world.
— John Milton
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In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.
— Martha Graham
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How can the unknown merit reverence? In other words how can you revere that of which you are ignorant? At the same time, it would…
— Harold Pinter
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As with all great teachers, his curriculum was an insignificant part of what he communicated. From him you didn't learn a subject, but a life...Tolerance…
— William Alexander Percy
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Profound love demands a deep conception and out of this develops reverence for the mystery of life. It brings us close to all beings, to…
— Albert Schweitzer
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The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.
— Albert Schweitzer
Who Wrote These Reverence Quotes
332 authors contributed a total of 472 Reverence Quotes, led by these top contributors: