Quotes About Reverence

Sometimes I wish I could photosynthesize so that just by being, just by shimmering at the meadow's edge or floating lazily on a pond, I could be doing the work of the world while standing silent in the sun.

To love a place is not enough. We must find ways to heal it.

Joanna Macy writes that until we can grieve for our planet we cannot love it—grieving is a sign of spiritual health. But it is not enough to weep for our lost landscapes; we have to put our hands in the earth to make ourselves whole again. Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over despair.

I know no gods, but if any care to be with us, I welcome them.

Hallowed be Thy name, if a name Thou hast and any desire to see it hallowed.

In addition to his better-known title of Father of His Country, Washington is also revered in certain circles as the Father of the American Mule.

Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting and enhancing life, and that to destroy, to harm or to hinder life is evil.

Reverence for Life," he wrote. Ethics, Schweitzer decided, was nothing more than that. "Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting and enhancing life, and that to destroy, to harm or to hinder life is evil.

Some people carry this philosophy too far. They look at the damage mankind does to the natural world, and they forget that humans are animals as well, and also deserving of reverence.

The emancipation of the scholars and scientists from philosophy is according to [Nietzsche] only a part of the democratic movement, i.e. of the emancipation of the low from subordination to the high. …The plebeian character of the contemporary scholar or scientist is due to the fact that he has no reverence for himself.

Christianity prepared the ground. It paved the way for modern totalitarianism by entrenching three fundamentals in the Western mind: in metaphysics, the worship of the supernatural; in epistemology, the reliance on faith; as a consequence, in ethics, the reverence for self-sacrifice.

As science turns toward the realm of the Spirit to understand the physical universe, Space, Matter, Time are more prone to induce reverence than arrogance among scientists, who are sounding more like Isaiah in the temple than Isaac Newton under the apple tree.

We are looking for a tongue that speaks with reverence for life, searching for an ecology of mind. Without it, we have no home, no place of our own within the creation. It is not only the vocabulary of science we desire. We want a language of that different yield. A yield rich as the harvests of the earth, a yield that returns us to our own sacredness, to a self-love and resort that will carry out to others.

For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.

Whenever anyone utters with reverence the name of Babaji, that devotee attracts an instant spiritual blessing.

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

Reverence: the spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man.

Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe.

Children, we must cultivate reverence towards all great masters, monks and gurus.

Try to feel God in any little thing you do or feel. In a laugh, a smile, a tear, a revelation-a kiss.

Don't just Recognize him.he don't need your recognition. he created you, not you created him. Understand the GOD.

The ocean humbles you. You can go and win a world title, but you're never going to beat the ocean.

Volleyball is like going to church ... many attend, but few understand.

I long for the days when athletes were revered. I want to see the romance return to sports, to see people enjoy the game purely for the game and the players.