Quotes About Reverence

Remember: the ratings system is a voluntary infringement of First Amendment rights, an uneasy bargain between the needs of parents, the needs of artists, and the needs of large media corporations to make profits. Any time we chip away at the First Amendment, we should at least do it with some reverence.

Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.

What I think shines through for us is that we have a real respect for the music and a real reverence.

Iggy Pop is God, if God looked half that good with his shirt off.

I'm in awe of Alexander Rusev.

Some men look at Constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them, like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched," he wrote in 1816.40

I always consider the settlement of America with Reverence and Wonder," John Adams wrote in 1765, "as the Opening of a grand scene and Design in Providence, for the Illumination of the Ignorant and the Emancipation of the slavish Part of Mankind all over the Earth.

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Worship is either something "given", divine worship is fore-ordained—or it does not exist at all.

Ronald Reagan was a man who knew the diplomatic form. He also had a showman's ear for a tune. So when, at an official dinner, the marine band slipped into 'Edelweiss', he stopped mid-anecdote, rose to his feet, placed a reverential hand over his heart and stared into the blank mid-distance out of respect for the Austrian national anthem.

Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.

People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state--it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.... Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel

The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one's own tradition with reverence for different traditions.

God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.

The true and serious beauty of trees, how it seemed insane that they should offer this to us, how unworthy we were, bewildered, how soon we were nearly weeping at their trunks as they tossed down petal after petal, and we tried to remember how it felt to receive and notice the receiving, pink, pink, pink, pink, pink.

Of all engineers, the most productive were those who gave often, and gave more than they received. These were the true Givers, and they had the highest productivity, and the highest status. They were revered by their peers. By giving often, engineers built up more trust, and attracted more valuable help across their work groups - Not just from the people they helped.

You either humble yourself, or God will do it for you.

13I have given you a land for which you did not labor and towns which you did not build, and you have settled in them; you are enjoying vineyards and olive groves which you did not plant. 14"Now, therefore, revere the Lord and serve Him with undivided loyalty; put away the gods that your forefathers served beyond the Euphrates and in Egypt, and serve the Lord.

Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses.

We can't let the past be forgotten.

It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.

It's clear that I owe Pep a lot and I would be honoured to work with him again.

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

Similarly that is no true democracy in which the whole crowd of citizens is free to do whatever they wish or purpose, but when, in a community where it is traditional and customary to reverence the gods, to honor our parents, to respect our elders, and to obey the laws, the will of the greater number prevails, this is to be called a democracy.