Quotes About Reverence

In truth, always needing to stay immediate by removing what is no longer real is the working inner definition of sacrifice---giving up with reverence and compassion what no longer works in order to stay close to what is sacred.

actitud fundamental de esta oración es la veneración a Dios y la sensibilidad para su presencia permanente.

However, obeying that law that requires most people to minimise to a superior a misfortune which, to an inferior, they would magnify, Widmerpool thrust his head through the open window of the car, and, smiling reverentially, gave an assurance that all was well.

own husband. And even now, it seemed to argue so black an ingratitude on her part—this accusation that she was indifferent to them! From her childhood upwards she had revered and loved Lady Lufton, and for years had taught herself to regard her

I shall have charity enough to believe that they are wrong, through error of judgment; but should I see him attacked by those who ought to know him, and to love him, and revere him, of such I shall be constrained to form a different opinion.

you may be sure of one thing; I shall always judge my father to be right, and those who oppose him I shall judge to be wrong. If those who do not know him oppose him, I shall have charity enough to believe that they are wrong, through error of judgment; but should I see him attacked by those who ought to know him, and to love him, and revere him, of such I shall be constrained to form a different opinion." And

I know it is so. What dear-bought treasured certainty that was.

God is not mocked!

I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me.

To be worshiped is not freedom.

Paul told him everything about quilting, things he would never remember, but he savored each word as if they were lost verses of Scripture.

none of us can know the mind of God. He's too big for that.

Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth. Real devotion is rooted in an awed and reverent gratitude, but one that is lucid, grounded, and intelligent.

I know that Goddess ritual, insofar as it generates reverence for and celebrates that which is female, which is us, is fiercely empowering, and that her image in our minds—images of ourselves as deity—is necessary as a blueprint for a more authoritative mode of being in the world. The Goddess is a metaphor for our own and all women's creative, healing, transformative powers, a representation of our inner selves.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness; and reverence towards the Gods must be inviolate. Great words of prideful men are ever punished with great blows, and, in old age, teach the chastened to be wise.

Both noun (eusebia) and verb (sebizo) derive from the Greek root seb-, which refers to the awe that radiates from gods to humans and is given back as worship. Everything related to this root has fear in it.

Destiny guide me always Destiny find me filled with reverence pure in word and deed.

But if any man comes striding, high and mighty in all he says and does, no fear of justice, no reverence for the temples of the gods— let a rough doom tear him down, repay his pride, breakneck, ruinous pride!

No, I can't repeat it, it's unholy.

Apenas quero declarar que, sem saber, 435 manténs as relações mais torpes e sacrílegas com a criatura que devias venerar, alheio à sordidez de tua própria vida!

Painful emotions show you what prevents you from creating harmony, cooperation, sharing and reverence for life.

In the final analysis, despite our diversity, there is only one type of vegan -- a person who is committed to and practices a reverence and respect for all life.

God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.

In a world of insanity, nothing is sacred. It's an insane world, nothing is sacred.