Quotes About Reverence

To turn mass time into a sacred concert, or a prayer meeting, to make it too lively and interesting, with things to do and rollicking songs, is a disservice. It is substituting for the effort of faith.

The only time they ever throw anything away is when it's really and truly broken, and then they make a big deal about it. They save up all their bent pins and broken sewing needles and once a year they do a whole memorial service for them, chanting and then sticking them into a block of tofu so they will have a nice soft place to rest. Jiko says that everything has a spirit, even if it is old and useless, and we must console and honor the things that have served us well.

The point is that most of what we currently hold sacred is not sacred for any reason other than that it was thought sacred yesterday.

Let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.

Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.

The name of father is sacred in two senses; he should be reverenced as the author of our being and as a master whom we ought to obey.

There are people who laugh at the horse who would not dare to laugh at the master.

These things, she felt, were not to be passed around like disingenuous party favors. She kept an honor code with her journals and her poems. 'Inside, inside,' she would whisper quietly to herself when she felt the urge to tell...

It not nice to speak ill of the dead, one say, but the truth never can be ill.

Thank God I am not God! Thank God I am not God!

Ashoka supplemented this general moral and political principle by a dialectical argument based on enlightened self-interest: 'For he who does reverence to his own sect while disparaging the sects of others wholly from attachment to his own sect, in reality inflicts, by such conduct, the severest injury on his own sect.

PIETY, n. Reverence for the Supreme Being, based upon His supposed resemblance to man.

ABDOMEN, n. [1.] The temple of the god Stomach, in whose worship, with sacrificial rights, all true men engage. From women this ancient faith commands but a stammering assent. They sometimes minister at the altar in a half-hearted and ineffective way, but true reverence for the one deity that men really adore they know not. If woman had a free hand in the world's marketing the race would become graminivorous. [2.] A shrine enclosing the object.

The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

The greatest happiness for the thinking man is to have fathomed the fathomable, and to quietly revere the unfathomable.

Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.

[W]e have ceased to see the life in which we live. It is my intent to cause the viewer to revisit the gifts we are surrounded by and see them as if for the first time.

Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment.

If I had my life to live over, I'd have spent more hours in worship.

Thread of Selfishness in Web of Life.—Deuteronomy contains much instruction regarding what the law is to us, and the relation we shall sustain to God as we reverence and obey

The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.

The right to life is not a woman's issue. The Lord is the giver of life and only He can make choices about life. It is always a reward to have life ... only the Lord gives and takes life.

At such moments the soul retires within, to float upon the bosom of a deeper stream, and has communion with the dead, and sees the world's glory not diminished, but different in kind to what she has supposed.

For he believed that women revere men for their manliness.