Reverence Quotes
472 quotes by 332 authors
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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
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Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.
— Havelock Ellis
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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
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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
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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
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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
— Plato
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"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
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Reverence, humility, contentment, gratitude and hearing the good Dhamma, this is the best good luck.
— Gautama Buddha
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Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.
— Propertius
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Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment.
— William Sloane Coffin
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Reverence Quotes
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