Reverence Quotes

472 quotes by 338 authors

The whole earth is a living icon of the face of God. ... I do not worship matter. I worship the Creator of matter who… — John of Damascus
Nothing has so exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but themselves. Those who… — Samuel Johnson
Happiness is reverence for all life. — Goswami Kriyananda
Beauty imposes reverence in the Spring, Grave as the urge within the honeybuds, It wounds us as we sing. Beauty is joy that stays not… — Shaw Neilson
If you can imagine the one family continuously occupying the same land for 40,000 years or more, using it not just to sustain life but… — Tania Major
Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune. — Owain Glyndwr
I live in a country where we put children in shackles and in concrete cells. Working together, with righteousness and hope, we can create a… — Lateefah Simon
Receive the children in reverence, educate them in love, and send them forth in freedom. — Rudolf Steiner
I think along the way, as we treat nature as model and mentor, and not as a nuisance to be evaded or manipulated, we will… — Amory Lovins
For spiritual companions I have had the many artists who have relied on nature to help shape their imagination. And their most elaborate equipment was… — Sam Abell
Woman has been the target of much that is sordid and cheap, especially in photography. To raise, to elevate, to endorse with timeless reverence the… — Ruth Bernhard
The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence… — Desmond Tutu
The perspective that many today are beginning to see as fully realistic is that democracy in our country, and in our part of the world,… — Torbjorn Tannsjo
Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image bow… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Whoever would be a teacher of men let him begin by teaching himself before teaching others; and let him teach by example before teaching by… — Khalil Gibran
There are very few real teachers. Teaching is not a job; it is a vocation. To be a great one many qualities must be combined:… — Alice von Hildebrand
He who loves goodness harbors angels, reveres reverence, and lives with God. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
[Why] should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book? Its morals are pure, its examples captivating and noble. The… — Fisher Ames
Nothing has a greater tendency to lessen the reverence which mankind ought to have for the Supreme Being, than a careless repetition of his name… — Noah Webster
How much more do they deserve our reverence and praise, whose lives are devoted to the formation of institutions, which, when they and their children… — Joseph Story

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