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Reverence Quotes by Thomas Berry
- Every being has its own interior, its self, its mystery, its numinous aspect. To deprive any being of this sacred quality is to disrupt the…
- There is an ultimate wildness in all this, for the universe, as existence itself, is a terrifying as well as a benign mode of being.…
- The human venture depends absolutely on this quality of awe and reverence and joy in the Earth and all that lives and grows upon the…
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
- When men do not love their hearth, nor reverence their thresholds, it is a sign that they have dishonoured both ... Our… — John Ruskin
- Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none… — Thomas Jefferson
- Proper respect to others is the most prudent rule of directing the measure of reverence due to ourselves. — Norm MacDonald
- It is one thing to fear God as threatening, with a holy reverence, and another to be afraid of the evil threatened. — John Owen
- 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