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Reverence Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- 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,…
- Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
- I found in myself, and still find, an instinct toward a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual life, as do most men, and another…
- They who know of no purer sources of truth, who have traced up its stream no higher, stand, and wisely stand, by the Bible and…
More Reverence Quotes
- Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence,… — John Adams
- I reverence the Constitution of the United States as a sacred document. To me its words are akin to the revelations of… — Ezra Taft Benson
- The idea of reverence for God is transmitted from parent to child, it is educated into an abnormal development, and thus almost… — Annie Besant
- Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we… — Samuel Butler
- If we want to give poor people soap we must set out deliberately to give them luxuries. If we will not make… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- When men do not love their hearth, nor reverence their thresholds, it is a sign that they have dishonoured both ... Our… — John Ruskin
- How does one chip off the marble that doesn't belong? ... That comes about through five things: humility, reverence, inspiration, deep purpose,… — Walter Russell
- Inspiration comes only to those who seek it with humility toward their own achievements and reverence toward the achievements of God. — Walter Russell
- It is the black work of an ungodly man or an atheist, that God is not in all his thoughts. What comfort… — Stephen Charnock
- The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he… — Albert Schweitzer