Quotes About Reverence

Honoring the priesthood fosters respect, respect promotes reverence, and reverence invites revelation.

There should be respect and privacy for any dead person.

I'd like to go back to poetry again. I really, really revere good poetry. It's been my private discipline.

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.

I know, if I'm speaking to God in any kind of way, I keep myself from using profanity.

When you talk about a man like David Bowie, you have to go in there with dignity.

There is no distinction between reverence for existence and our senses and/or apathy.

I think familiarity breeds contempt. I mean, we'll never get another Greta Garbo will we? Someone would go in with a camera Sellotaped to the bottom of a tray trying to get film of her with no make-up on.

If you're going to tear down a hero, you should never forget that you're tearing down someone else's hero. You're tearing down somebody else's son. You might have to face her one day.

If I was a fan of someone as a teenager, then it's OK for me to feel completely in awe when I meet them.

The problem is, I think, that so many of us pray as if we are ordering groceries. We pick up the telephone and say, 'Is this the right place to place my order?' and we proceed right to dictating our order. When we have then ended that list, we hang up.

Every sport needs its temple, its cathedral.

It is inappropriate to discuss matters of business, pleasure or current events in the temple.

inner meaning of Holy Scripture to all who heard him. Sanctified by God

'Tis sin,Nay, profanation to keep in.

Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things from Your law.

That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow. – Philippians 2:10

The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows His handiwork. – Psalm 19:1

All Your garments are scented with myrrh and aloes and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, by which they have made You glad. – Psalm 45:8

the need to prioritize prayer, reverence for the Eucharist, the importance of solitude, and the call to immerse oneself in sacred Scripture.

offered it a respectful inclination of the head while recovering my

the journal, but with a kind of reverence now that he had not initially felt. He hadn't known at first whose initials they were—RLS—nor had he known who Louis or Fanny were. But then he'd read and deciphered more of the text, put it all together, and discovered that the author of the book was none other than Robert Louis Stevenson. The man whose

He is a king whom emperors have served.

Live your life as if there are no miracles and everything is a miracle. – Albert Einstein