Quotes About Reverence

I don't take for granted that I wake up. I appreciate it when I do, those times when it still happens.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.

I was really talkative as a child. The priest used to pray for me not to talk so much because I was distracting the other kids.

rejoice and make a fool of yourself for God the way lovers have always made fools of themselves for the one they love." —Frederick Buechner, Beyond Words

Age was authority in the sixteenth century, and More's deep reverence for his father showed a general habit of mind that offered a way of managing uncertainty. If the authority of experience can be trusted, there may be in respect for age a way of fending off questions that might otherwise overwhelm.

We stone our prophets, then build monuments to them after they're gone.

We are all just trying to be holy.

The best part of spirituality is reverence. There are other parts. Some people like to hear the sound of their own voice. If you don't believe in the world it would be stupid to paint it. If you don't believe in God, then who are you talking to?

And here is the tabernacle reconstructed.

To behold her is an immediate check to loose behavior; to love her is a liberal education.

Jailbait," he declared, leaping up. "You're a saint. A goddess, even.

I knew, right then, that no matter how bedraggled I looked or how blank he tried to keep his face, I was a goddess to him.

Being a Christian then is more about celebrating mystery than conquering it.

And on the worn book of old-golden I brought not here to read, it seems, but hold And freshen in this air of withering sweetness;

Wash your dirty dishes like you are washing the infant Jesus.

Where was our language of reverence? Of sacredness? Every year in America we add hundreds of words to our dictionaries that describe our infatuation with pop culture and technology, but none that describe a deepening regard for the natural world.

America takes her writers too seriously.

Chi ha contemplato una volta con i propri occhi la bellezza della natura non è destinato alla morte come pensa Platen, bensì alla natura stessa, di cui ha intravisto le meraviglie.

I'd witnessed how brutal this boy could be—he'd nearly beaten the man to death in front of me. Yet he was now touching my paintings gently, almost reverently. I felt like a spy, like this was a moment I was never supposed to share. It seemed . . . intimate. When he touched the cane, I swore I could feel him aching for those fields, for that rain about to fall.

Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it.

Continually revise your relationship to God until the only certainty you have is not that you are faithful, but that He is.

Shamanism is not a religion. It's a method. And when this method is practiced with humility, reverence and self-discipline, the shaman's path can become a way of life.

Make sure that your religion is a matter between you and God only.