Quotes About Reverence

Use it, enjoy it, but always handle history with care.

When you're playing someone that's real, there is that hanging weight of how will they feel when they see this: will I make them feel exposed in some way, and how do I absolutely avoid doing that while playing this as accurately and empathetically as I possibly can?

The process of writing a book has given me a whole new reverence for writers. Mechanically, it is a brutal process; emotionally, it's incredibly healing.

Hearing Radney Foster was big for me, like hearing Al Green or R.E.M. for the first time.

My most firmly held value is what Albert Schweitzer termed 'reverence for life.' I take this seriously; many would say that because I extend it to nonhumans, I take it too far.

I grew up in India. From my childhood, I remember the great reverence that people held for our national hero, Mahatma Gandhi. He galvanized millions to march as one, disarmed the empire that had ruled his country for nearly a century, and enabled India to become a free and independent nation.

When I came to Arsenal years ago, I saw things from Dennis Bergkamp and Thierry Henry I'd never seen before.

It's taken some getting used to, that my father actually is a hero.

You should never meet your heroes.

I know there is a higher being and I respect that force.

every honest cry, even if sent into the deaf ear of an idol, passes on to the ears of the unknown God, the heart of the unknown Father.

she might have seen that she was not bound to measure God by the way her father talked to him—that the form of the prayer had to do with her father, not immediately with God—that God might be altogether adorable, notwithstanding the prayers of all heathens and of all saints.

Every highest human act is just a giving back to God of that which he first gave to us.

His function is to act as a focusing point for love, fear, and reverence, emotions which are more easily felt towards an individual than towards an organization.

It's better," he thought in words, remembering some bit of reading, "to have no opinion of God at all than to have one that is unworthy of Him.

Many others speak deferentially to me.

The thousand dresses, laid out so reverently that afternoon, flecks of dust brushed off carefully in doorways, hems gathered up for the carriage trip: where are they now? Is a single one museum-displayed? Are some few yet saved in attics? Most are dust. As are the women who wore them so proudly in that transient moment of radiance.

All women deserve a dignified and respectful workplace in which talent, hard work and loyalty are recognized, revered, and rewarded.

The World Cup has its own space that needs to be respected.

Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels.

To be honest, I still get awestruck when I meet my heroes and the people I admire. I think that's only natural.

I don't ever cross the line. I step right up to it. I put my toes on the line, but I don't ever cross that line. There are some barriers you just don't cross - you don't talk about religion; you don't talk about race. Those are lines I will never cross.

I'm glad that your work is at 291 — when I'm with it it seems to prop me up — makes me forget so much that is hideous — and a deep reverence for something very wonderful invariably over comes me — That's what you give me. The place breathes peace & space — human throb — a great yearning — a great closeness —

Long before I had the chance to adore all of you, I adored the bits of you I could see.