Quotes About Reverence

Speaking the Lord's name with reverence must simply be part of our lives as members of the Church... we do not use foul language. We do not curse or defame. We do not use the Lord's name in vain. It is not difficult to become perfect in avoiding a swearing habit, for if one locks his mouth against all words of cursing,... he is en route to perfection in that matter.

But I am unwilling to utter all that may occur to those who think of it, yet cannot be spoken without irreverence.

When smashing monuments, save the pedestals. They always come in handy.

Let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.

I see reverence and doubt not as ends of a seesaw but more like spaces on a coil that rotates in continuum.

The most striking contradiction of our civilization is the fundamental reverence for truth which we profess and the thorough-going disregard for it which we practice.

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.

Only when we are captured by an overwhelming sense of awe and reverence in the presence of God, will we begin to worship God in spirit and in truth.

We betray our modern arrogance and forget the place of mystery in God's dealing with us.

There never was a great truth but it was reverenced; never a great institution, nor a great man, that did not, sooner or later, receive the reverence of mankind.

It is the artist's job to revere beauty without being enchanted by it, to aim for it but also to aim for truth and goodness - just in case they, and not beauty, are the real things of value.

Waking up is not serious. It is a gentle remembering and an honoring of the present moment as the truth of life.

Science is teaching man to know and reverence truth, and to believe that only so far as he knows and loves it can he live worthily on earth, and vindicate the dignity of his spirit.

The need of truth is more sacred than any other need.

We must approach religion with reverence and with love, and our heart will stand up and say, this is truth, and this is untruth.

To find oneself living in an age of doubt is not such a curse. There is a kind of reverence in undertaking the quest for truth, even before the first scrap has been found.

Humility is never about being small, unseen and unnoticed. Humility is really about expressing all the wonder you are in a way that all people see is the awesomeness and greatness of GOD.

You need to know the truth to be able to praise God

We must never forget that higher knowledge has to do with revering truth and insight and not with revering people.

I, too, have to end up worshipping at the altar where God's name is truth.

Tell them a lie big enough, they'll worship you as a sage. Tell them a truth big enough and they'll mock you.

open the door in the gate. She had always found a paradox in the crime of blasphemy for it seemed to her that any God who could be discountenanced by the words of human beings was by definition not worthy of reverence, but

Sometimes the best way to show your respect for something is to just leave it alone.

He is really something. I love him. He is Sir Arsene Wenger.