Quotes About Reverence

the words carved above the cathedral of my childhood

To different minds, poetry may present different phases. To me, the reverent faith of the people I lived among, and their faithful everyday living, was poetry; blossoms and trees and blue shies were poetry. God himself was poetry.

"The dog is the only animal that has seen his god."

Give thanks to the Lord and proclaim his greatness. Let the whole world know what he has done.

When animals age, some humans see them as less valuable, less important and less entertaining.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.

Some things are best left alone. Such as interfering in things which are beyond our powers.

Christopher Reeve did such an amazing job that to give him some kind of accent or more bravado would have been wrong. Audiences wouldn't have responded to that either.

Take no revenge that you have not pondered beneath a starry sky, or on a canyon overlook, or to the lapping of waves and the mewing of a distant gull.

Yielding to emotions such as anger or hurt or defensiveness will drive away the Holy Ghost.

it is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.

When we convene again to understand the world, the first speaker will again point silently out the window at the hillside in its season… and we will nod silently, and silently stand and go. Sabbaths 2000 II

We were created to be fully human - a lifetime effort - and using our minds intelligently and reverently is essential to full humanhood. But Rushdie talks throughout of making something sacred, whereas there is another kind of sacrality that exists of its own right.

For the heaven and the earth; the sun and the moon and the stars; the whole opening universe of our day; the Scriptures of truth, with all that they contain; the Church of Christ, with all her services and all her saints—all are set before us to teach us and to compel us indeed to "think magnificently of God.

W]orship, if not the child, is at least the brother, of fear.

A reverent agnosticism can be on occasion a better evangelism than a religion which knows all the answers.

Everything's fit to be worshipped.

Come on now," Vardy said. "You can have faith in anything," Vardy said. "Everything's fit to be worshipped.

Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings.

Open yourself to the sight, and it will show you what you need to know. But never attempt to bend it to your will. Never pry into a particular life that has been brought to your care. That is to break trust.

Krishna shrugged. "He believes it to be so. Isn't that what truth is? The force of a person's believing seeps into those around him—into the very earth and air and water—until there's nothing else.

Dia yakin tentang itu. Bukankah itulah kebenaran? Kekuatan keyakinan seseorang merembes kepada orang-orang di sekitarnya--ke dalam tanah, udara, dan air-- sampai tidak ada yang lainnya." -Krishna

Food is a gift and should be treated reverentially--romanced and ritualized and seasoned with memory.

Begging in the Name of Jesus is an insult to His Name. Use His Name as a king, with boldness!