Quotes About Reverence

Tread softly! All the earth is holy ground.

Who's there? Something old? Someone holy...?

wrote no letters to the editor. Cool admiration, but no fire.

Help Nature and work on with her; and Nature will regard thee as one of her creators... she will lay bare before thy gaze the treasures hidden in the depths of her pure virgin bosom.

The ultimate aim is reverence for the universe. The ultimate aim is love for life. The ultimate aim is harmony within oneself.

Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity.

Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science. It is as impossible to live without reverence as it is without joy.

Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity. By day, space is one with the earth and with man--it is his sun that is shining, his clouds that are floating past; at night, space is his no more.

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.

I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.

If once we begin judging and arguing about everything, nothing sacred will be left!

Remember when I moved in you and the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was, "Hallelujah.

There is a religious hallelujah, but there are many other ones[....] When one looks at the world, there's only one thing to say, and it's hallelujah. That's the way it is.

there is a world of difference between knowing the Word of God and knowing the God of the Word.

what he is to the inscrutable God is what matters.

All ancient polytheisms revered one high god above all others.

There's something about these obscure vignettes of former lives that's very powerful. Our woods are full of old cellar holes, tumbled-down chimneys, ancient scraggly lilacs absurdly tall still stretching toward the light.

When it comes to true humility in the face of history, nothing beats complete silence.

Becoming an author changes your attitude too. Once you see where books come from, and how they're made, they never seem quite as sacred again.

The higher you get the more you realize how much bigger than you everything is.

She was their witch queen, and they adored her.

Sometimes she looked so beautiful he couldn't believe she had anything to do with him. He could barely believe she existed at all. "But

I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.

I went to India and was quite taken with it. There's a feeling there that things are holy first and useful second.