Quotes About Reverence

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

And Balaam answered and said, ... If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the Lord my God, to do less or more."—Spiritual

So far as birth and religious instruction were concerned, these brothers were equal. Both were sinners, and both acknowledged the claims of God to reverence and worship. To outward appearance their religion was the same up to a certain point, but beyond this the difference between the two was great.

The age is a vociferous one, and no prophet is without honor who is able to strike an attitude and to speak loud enough to make himself heard.

Distressed by the increasing wickedness of the ungodly, and fearing that their infidelity might lessen his reverence for God, Enoch avoided constant association with them, and spent much time in solitude, giving himself to meditation and prayer. Thus he waited for the Lord, seeking a clearer knowledge of His will, that he might perform it.

My very revered father, I am beginning to think that - Well, there's little peace in this world for a quiet book-loving man.

God is ever indispensable. I mean, God is all-important or rather too important to be disregarded by anyone or anything. Oh! yes, no human can do anything successfully without God or rather no human can survive or live without God (John 15:5). Thus, never ever take God almighty for granted. That is to say, always appreciate him (God). ~Emeasoba George.

God is ever indispensable. In other words, God is all-important or rather too important to be disregarded by anyone or anything. Oh! yes, no human can do anything successfully without God or rather no human can survive or live without God (John 15:5) QED. Thus, never ever take God Almighty for granted. -Emeasoba George

Concert la aniversarea (50 de ani) lui O. Messiaen. Eram in spatele muzicantului, dar puteam sa-l vad din profil. Asculta cu un respect religios: lucrarile lui erau intr-adevar un univers - dar numai pentru el. Ascultam cu gandul aiurea; si ma gandeam ca fiecare e inchis in propria-i lume, si ca ceea ce facem nu inseamna nimic pentru ceilalti. Nu exist?m decât pentru duÅŸmanii noÅŸtri - ÅŸi pentru câÈ›iva prieteni care nu ne iubesc.

When I got started again, I drove slower and felt smaller. I think it does us all good to get looked at like that now and then by a wild animal.

Women will not suffer their idol to step down from his pedestal. They do not forgive the slightest pettiness in a god.

We cannot measure the vast orbit of the Divine thought of which we are but an atom as small as God is great; but we can feel its vastness, we can kneel, adore, and wait.

No one has time for this, of course. No one has time to lie on the deck watching stars, or to wonder how one's hand came to be, or to see the soul of a stranger walking by. Small wonder we are short on reverence.

Reverence requires a certain pace. It requires a willingness to take detours, even side trips, which are not part of the original plan.

Reverence for creation comes easily to most people. Reverence for other people presents more of a challenge, especially if those people's lives happen to impinge upon your own.

reverence was the proper attitude of a small and curious human being in a vast and fascinating world of experience. This world included people and places as well as things.

Supreme Court justice Potter Stewart once said he could not define pornography, but he knew it when he saw it. Reverence is a little like that. It is difficult to define, but you know it when you feel it.

This kind of holy envy comes with its own safeguard. Although I am allowed to admire what is growing in the well-tended fields of my religious neighbors, I am not allowed to pull off the road and help myself. The things I envy have their own terroir, their own long histories of weather and fertilization. They do not exist to serve me, improve me, or profit me.

Although I am allowed to admire what is growing in the well-tended fields of my religious neighbors, I am not allowed to pull off the road and help myself. The things I envy have their own terroir , their own long histories of weather and fertilization. They do not exist to serve me, improve me, or profit me. They have their own dominion.

The word "cult" comes from the Latin phrase cultus deorum, which literally means "the care of the gods." A cultic act is any ritualized practice that is done out of reverence to or worship of the gods. Such activities lay at the heart of pagan religions. Doctrines and ethics did not.

I hate that preaching which tendeth to make the hearers laugh, or to move their mind with tickling levity, and affect them as stage-players use to do, instead of affecting them with a holy reverence of the name of God.

And in fact, one of the central reasons why I never got involved with any drugs or anything is that I remember talking to people in maybe 1975 who saw Hendrix but couldn't remember it. I was like, 'How could that be?'

Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.

I don't understand how people of intelligence can reconcile what I see as constant proof of divine indifference to human outcomes with a reverence for God. To me it's a mystery.