Reverent Quotes
59 quotes by 51 authors
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Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and…
— Francis Bacon
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My friend, the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, was murdered in 2004 for having been insufficiently reverent toward Islam.
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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I think the true gardener is a lover of his flowers, not a critic of them. I think the true gardener is the reverent servant…
— Reginald Farrer
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In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October, when the trees are bare to…
— Alexander Smith
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It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright.
— Murray Rothbard
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On entering a temple we assume all signs of reverence. How much more reverent then should we be before the heavenly bodies, the stars, the…
— Seneca the Younger
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We all felt the majesty of the body. In a very short period of time we had seen something that was bigger than each of…
— William DeVries
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Do you fast? Then feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, visit the sick, do not forget the imprisoned, have pity on the tortured,…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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At last there dawned the most beautiful day of all the days of my life. How perfectly I remember even the smallest details of those…
— Therese of Lisieux
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It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be as sacred as…
— Mark Twain
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If you see things as in eternity, you are less a prey to the pain of their passing, and so you can learn the more…
— Gerald Vann
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The more deeply you understand other people, the more you will appreciate them, the more reverent you will feel about them. To touch the soul…
— Stephen Covey
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Please take good care of it all, OK? Be an enlightened monarch who treats your domain with reverent responsibility. And make sure you also enjoy…
— Rob Brezsny
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I'm reverent from a distance.
— Janet Morris
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Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth. Real devotion is rooted in an awed and reverent gratitude, but one that is lucid, grounded,…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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He [Jesus] speaks in parables, and though we have approached these parables reverentially all these many years and have heard them expounded as grave and…
— Frederick Buechner
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Cyborgs are not reverent; they do not re-member the cosmos. They are wary of holism, but needy for connection- they seem to have a natural…
— Donna J. Haraway
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There is no room in the universe for the least contempt or pride; but only for a gentle and a reverent heart.
— James Martineau
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We may be able to tell how many stars are in the Milky Way; we may be able to count the petals of every flower,…
— Henry Van Dyke
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We need radical curiosity and reverent pranks, voracious listening and ferocious thanks.
— Rob Brezsny
Who Wrote These Reverent Quotes
51 authors contributed a total of 59 Reverent Quotes, led by these top contributors: