Quotes About Reverence

A person's thought may be referred at any place, position or even liked online by any number of people of this world ,but not actually revered unless and until it is admired by someone who is truly worth to his nice words.

The poet Mark Nepo defines sacrifice as "giving up with reverence and compassion what no longer works in order to stay close to what is sacred." So recognizing when habits are no longer working for us and sacrificing them is a cornerstone of wisdom.

Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

I really believe in science. It is a faith. It is a reverence akin to religion. But as we always say, it's different from religion in that, as near as we can tell, it exists outside of us. It has an objective quality, the process of science.

In my darker moments, I feel like the Queen of England, bound and gagged by reverence. Tin-crowned and irrelevant.

Sometimes I look at Helen Mirren on stage and think, 'You really are the Queen.' You see people bowing to her at the stage door!

I am a Christian guy. And I am kind of quiet about it because I want people to take me seriously before I throw something that serious in their face.

That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God's will, and in awe of the divine power, hoping to please God, and fearing to offend Him, by their behaviour respectively.

I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.

I guess I was raised in a household with a lot of reverence for the physical sanctity of books. You didn't destroy books.

I like Church furniture.

You don't go to Gettysburg with a shovel, you don't take belt buckles off the Arizona.

I've tried not to treat Shakespeare as a marble giant.

Adoration is caring for God above all else.

Fiona Shaw is a goddess to me.

I am opposed to war, because I am a believer in Christianity. … I believe, if there is one thing more than another that has brought reproach upon the Christian religion, it is the spirit of war.

The noble soul reveres itself

What is life? Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable against everything about us that is growing old and weak -and not only about us. Life - that is, then: being without reverence for those who are dying, who are wretched, who are ancient? Constantly being a murderer? -And yet old Moses said: Thou shalt not kill.

A friendly voice seldom reaches me nowadays. I am alone now, absurdly alone; and in the course of my relentless and underground struggle against everything that human beings till now have revered and loved, I have imperceptibly become something like a lair myself - something hidden away, which people do not find, even if they go out and look for it. But people do not go out in search of such things…

You revere me: but what if your reverence should some day collapse? Be careful lest a statue fall and kill you!

And what magnificent instruments of observation we possess in our senses! This nose, for example, of which no philosopher has yet spoken with reverence and gratitude, is actually the most delicate instrument so far at our disposal: it is able to detect tiny chemical concentrations that even elude a spectroscope.

Books for the general reader are always ill-smelling books, the odour of paltry people clings to them. Where the populace eat and drink, and even where they reverence, it is accustomed to stink. One should not go into churches if one wishes to breathe pure air.