Reverence Quotes

472 quotes by 332 authors

The fact that the most powerful and significant connections in our lives are (at the time) invisible to us seems to me a compelling argument… — David Foster Wallace
Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex. — Havelock Ellis
The height of devotion is reached when reverence and contemplation produce passionate worship, which in turn breaks forth in thanksgiving and praise in word and… — R. Kent Hughes
The Jain religion in India teaches that because all life is essentially interrelated and interconnected, all living beings should be considered sacred and be respected.… — Nathaniel Altman
To reverence the impersonal creation instead of the personal God who created us is a perversion designed for escaping moral accountability to the Creator. God… — Dave Hunt
Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. — Plato
"Civilization" has been thrust upon me since the days of the reservations, and it has not added one whit to my sense of justice, to… — Luther Standing Bear
Reverence, humility, contentment, gratitude and hearing the good Dhamma, this is the best good luck. — Gautama Buddha
Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away. — Propertius
Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment. — William Sloane Coffin
Religion, according to Alfred North Whitehead, is a phenomenon that begins in wonder and ends in wonder. Feelings of awe, reverence, and gratitude are primary,… — Gary A. Kowalski
If the traditional Rs (reading, writing, and arithmetic) are the basics that we want our children to master academically, then reverence, respect, and responsibility are… — Zoe Weil
Love, when it is pure, has a revitalizing effect upon others, and in the presence of a truly loving person others grow and expand into… — Unknown Author
The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint.… — Socrates
The Passion of Christ was an experience which included in itself every experience except sin, of every member of the human race. If one may… — Caryll Houselander
Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than… — Socrates
My Bible tells me that if we train a child in the way he should go, when he is old he will not turn from… — Barack Obama
The mistake made by all previous systems of ethics has been the failure to recognize that life as such is the mysterious value with which… — Albert Schweitzer
Even the weakest and most vulnerable, the sick, the old, the unborn and the poor, are masterpieces of God's creation, made in his own image,… — Pope Francis
Right now my mind is on the people who stole our instruments, and, specifically, the person with my guitar, which will no doubt end its… — Jonny Greenwood

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