Quotes About Reverence

But the reverent reader of Scripture cannot fail to see the sovereign hand of God arranging those ordinary circumstances to accomplish His purpose.

The secret things belong to the LORD our God.

Acknowledging His holiness is one of the ways we are to praise God.

Too many younger artists, critics, and curators are fetishizing the sixties, transforming the period into a deformed cult, a fantasy religion, a hip brand, and a crippling disease.

Benita held no reverence for anything old or historic. History was horrible, a long, sloppy tail of grief. It swished destructively behind the present, toppling everyone's own personal understanding of the past.

For a moment I had a strange intuition that just this, and in a real, profound sense, is life; and perhaps happiness even - love with a mixture of sadness, reverence, and silent knowledge.

Je sais, j'ai l'air d'un cinglé. Je parle aux arbres. Je souris aux fleurs. Je caresse les pierres. Mais la folie est avant tout affaire de perspective. Personnellement, je trouve bien plus fou de croire que les arbres n'entendent pas. Que les fleurs n'aiment pas qu'on leur sourie. Que les pierres sont insensibles.

My God, what would a man do with a woman like that except worship her?

Yes," said Wilson. "There's that. Doesn't do to talk too much about all this. Talk the whole thing away. No pleasure in anything if you mouth it up too much.

Plini de-ngâmfare, stârniÈ›i de mârÈ™av? neobr?zare, Asemenea câinilor f?r? ruÈ™ine, Nu vor s-aud? vocile zeilor.

I save him my diatribe about people with bullshit EdDs and PsyDs that I've run into in academia who couldn't pass a fifth-grade science exam all insisting that they be addressed with the same reverence as the head of oncology at a research hospital.

I didn't like seeing books damaged. I'd seen enough burned-out schoolhouses and libraries in my first life.

I said a silent prayer. Actually, silent is probably the only type of prayer a guy should attempt when his head's in a toilet.

Drinking standing up, in a rush and without due reverence, does not become the nobility.

And let us be seated, gentlemen. Drinking standing up, in a rush and without due reverence, does not become the nobility.' They

Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. (EPHESIANS 5:21)

Her husband avoided her activities as much as possible, and was very fond of her, having that affectionate reverence for his wife which is one of the advantages, from the female point of view, of the childless marriage.

When a gentleman who is as important as Mr. Eisman, spends quite a lot of money educating a girl, it really does not show reverance to call a gentleman by his first name. I mean I never even think of calling Mr. Eisman by his first name, but if I want to call him anything at all, I call him "Daddy

January is the beginning of a new year for us in the Western world. Let us give to God what belongs to him: the first hours of our day, the first month of the year, the first of our increase, the first in every area of our life. It's devoted... The principle of first fruits is that when you give God the first, he governs the rest and redeems in.

The best students come from homes where education is revered: where there are books, and children see their parents reading them.

Hardly can it be judged whether it be better for mankind to believe that the gods have regard of us, or that they have none, considering that some men have no respect and reverence for the gods, and others so much that their superstition is a shame to them.

Man was created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord and in this way to save his soul. The other things on Earth were created for man's use, to help him reach the end for which he was created.

In prayer, we stand where angels bow with veiled faces. There, even there, the cherubim and seraphim adore before that selfsame throne to which our prayers ascend. And shall we come there with stunted requests and narrow, contracted faith?

The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries.