Quotes About Reverence

Shrines are fascinating, especially when rarely opened.

With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not—they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.

And when, amid no earthly moans,Down, down that town shall settle hence,Hell, rising from a thousand thrones,Shall do it reverence.

Tell him, too," she said, "never to pluck flowers, and to think every bush may be a goddess in disguise.

Cricket to us was more than play, It was a worship in the summer sun.

This sweet virginal primitive land will metaphorically breathe a sigh of relief --like a whisper of wind--when we are all and finally gone and the place and its creations can return to their ancient procedures unobserved and undisturbed by the busy, anxious, brooding consciousness of man.

We have agreed not to drive our automobiles into cathedrals, concert halls, art museums, legislative assemblies, private bedrooms and the other sanctums of our culture; we should treat our national parks with the same deference, for they, too, are holy places. An increasingly pagan and hedonistic people (thank God!), we are learning finally that the forests and mountains and desert canyons are holier than our churches. Therefore let us behave accordingly.

I am here not only to evade for a while the clamor and filth and confusion of the cultural apparatus but also to confront, immediately and directly if it's possible, the bare bones of existence, the elemental and fundamental, the bedrock which sustains us. I want to be able to look at and into a juniper tree, a piece of quartz, a vulture, a spider, and see it as it is in itself, devoid of all humanly ascribed qualities, anti-Kantian, even the categories of scientific description.

pagan and hedonistic people (thank God!), we are learning finally that the forests and mountains and desert canyons are holier than our churches. Therefore let us behave accordingly.

God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.

Give me that old-time religion,It's good enough for me.

When he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple.

And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.

The dog is the only animal that has seen his god.

What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.

At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

For who hath known the mind of the Lord?

When I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead.

But let not God speak with us, lest we die.

O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the Lord.

Revilest thou God's high priest?

Behold, thy King cometh unto thee… lowly, and riding upon an ass.

Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.