Quotes About Reverence

Edmund slipped out of his shoes and socks and worked his toes down under the layer of pine needles, then stood silent, opening himself to the green." "Permeable Borders: Sourheart

All you need is already within you, only you must approach your self with reverence and love. Self-condemnation and self-distrust are grievous errors. Your constant flight from pain and search for pleasure is a sign of love you bear for your self, all I plead with you is this: make love of your self perfect. Deny yourself nothing -- glue your self infinity and eternity and discover that you do not need them; you are beyond.

All you need is already within you, only you must approach your self with reverence and love. Self-condemnation and self-disgust are grievous errors. Your constant flight from pain and search for pleasure is a sign of love you bear for your self, all I plead with you is this: make love of your self perfect. Deny your self nothing--give yourself infinity and eternity and discover that you do not need them; you are beyond.

Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Pudoarea e probabil un sentiment de profanare. Prietenia, iubirea, evlavia ar trebui tratate în chip tainic. Ar trebui s? vorbim despre ele doar în clipe rare, intime, s? ne în?elegem în t?cere cu privire la ele - Multe lucruri sunt prea ginga?e spre a fi gândite, ?i mai multe spre a fi rostite.

Il mio Dio non mi non mi ama o mi odia, non mi sorveglia né mi conosce e io non provo né amore né lealtà nei suoi confronti. Il mio Dio semplicemente è.

The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.

The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

Teachers of old went to these extremes in revering the transmission of Dharma through the right masters. This means nothing other than valuing the Dharma more than anything else. In this sense, the question to be settled first of all for anyone is to select the right teacher who has clearly inherited Dharma through authentic masters.

I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.

We betray our modern arrogance and forget the place of mystery in God's dealing with us.

For the first time in my life, I want to bow my head to the heavens.

I look upward ignorantly but reverently at the white host of heaven. Even the astronomer who peers through the magic glasses must go in peril of losing his mysterious awe in a tangle of mathematical calculations.

If we have never had the experience of taking our commonplace religious shoes off our commonplace religious feet, and getting rid of all the undue familiarity with which we approach God, it is questionable whether we have ever stood in his presence.

If we have never had the experience of taking our commonplace religious shoes off our commonplace religious feet, and getting rid of all the undue familiarity with which we approach God, it is questionable whether we have ever stood in His presence. The people who are flippant and familiar are those who have never yet been introduced to Jesus Christ. After the amazing delight and liberty of realising what Jesus Christ does, comes the impenetrable darkness of realising Who He is.

I must take time to worship the One whose name I bear.

O Lord, Thou art God, Holy and Almighty, and Thou doest all things well. Show Thyself to us this day. Lord, for myself I would make petition to see Thee; draw me near to Thee that I may know Thee and have rare communion with Thee.

Lord, for the days of the past holiday I praise and thank Thee, for my lying fallow to Thy grace; for the many prayers that have surrounded me like an atmosphere of heaven.

Never show the depth of your life to anyone but God.

Never let your common sense become so prominent and forceful that it pushes the Son of God to one side. Common sense is a gift that God gave to our human nature—but common sense is not the gift of His Son. Supernatural sense is the gift of His Son, and we should never put our common sense on the throne.

Whenever you get a blessing from God, give it back to Him as a love-gift.

Do you imagine that a corrupt age cannot revere, that an artificial age cannot be stirred by truth, that an abject age cannot rise to comprehension under the compelling force of genius ?—you are wrong to doubt. Was it not the vilest of the Pagan ages that gave credence, and foothold, and tenure, to the faiths and the philosophies of Paul 1

God wants to hear about our cares, not because he needs to hear but because we need to tell him.