Reverence Quotes
472 quotes by 338 authors
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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both…
— Samuel Johnson
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When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. The two things that nearly all of us have thoroughly and really…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Wise politicians will be cautious about fettering the government with restrictions that cannot be observed, because they know that every break of the fundamental laws,…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the…
— Norman Douglas
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Let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.
— Starhawk
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The difference between an amateur and a professional photographer is that the amateur thinks the camera does the work. And they treat the camera with…
— David Hemmings
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But if it's true it's beautiful. Truth is beautiful. And so my whole work is about what amounts to a reverence for life itself.
— Roy DeCarava
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Vampires Are Us: Understanding Our Love Affair with the Immortal Dark Side,â€Â is now out! Quote: “Vampires let us play with death and the issue…
— Margot Adler
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I just want to make my last demand in reverence to the work of what has been done by architects of the past. what was,…
— Louis Kahn
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It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name,…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The better proof of reverence for that holy name would be not to profane it by making it a topic of legislative discussion....
— James Madison
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Our Nation, a great stage for the acting out of great thoughts, presents the classic confrontation between Locke's views of the state of nature and…
— Allan Bloom
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Some of us who live in arid parts of the world think about water with a reverence others might find excessive.
— Joan Didion
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Duty is the necessity to act out of reverence for the law.
— Immanuel Kant
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The mystery of life--its inexplicability, beauty, cruelty, tenderness, folly . . . has occupied the greater part of my waking thoughts; and in reverence or…
— Theodore Dreiser
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I remember myself, that when I was young, I had sometime the company of one ancient godly minister, who was of weaker parts than many…
— Richard Baxter
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Of all the preaching in the world, I hate that preaching which tends to make the hearers laugh, or to move their minds with tickling…
— Richard Baxter
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I am not a morose person, but I would rather not be here. I don't have any reverence for life, only for the entities themselves.…
— Ingrid Newkirk
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The mystic reverence, the religious allegiance, which are essential to a true monarchy, are imaginative sentiments that no legislature can manufacture in any people.
— Walter Bagehot
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We reverence God and we hallow God's name when our life is such that it brings honor to God and attracts others to Him.
— William Barclay
Who Wrote These Reverence Quotes
338 authors contributed a total of 472 Reverence Quotes, led by these top contributors: