Quotes About Reverence

There is a passion of reverence, almost of pity, mingling with the love of an honest man for a pure girl, which makes it the most exquisite, perhaps, of all human sentiments.

The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.

The nation can prosper and be happy only when education develops in an atmosphere of Truth, Love and Reverence.

Reverence is an attitude of honoring Life. You do not have to be authentically powered to be gentle with Life or to love Life.

The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence.

Knightly love is blent with reverence As heavenly air is blent with heavenly blue.

I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history.

Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort.

There is a phenomenon called Trail Magic, known and spoken of with reverence by everyone who hikes the trail, which holds that often when things look darkest some little piece of serendipity comes along to put you back on a heavenly plane.

Generally speaking – which is of course always a dangerous thing to do, generally speaking – Americans revere the past only as long as there is some money in it somewhere and it doesn't mean going without air-conditioning, free parking and other essential conveniences.

God doesn't want us to pile up impressive phrases. He doesn't want us to use words without thinking about their meaning. He wants us to talk to him as to a friend or father—authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly. I heard a man do this once when I least expected it.

And the reason I am writing this on the back of a manila envelope now that they have left the train together is to tell you that when she turned to lift the large, delicate cello onto the overhead rack, I saw him looking up at her and what she was doing the way the eyes of saints are painted when they are looking up at God when he is doing something remarkable, something that identifies him as God.

saw him looking up at her and what she was doing the way the eyes of saints are painted when they are looking up at God when he is doing something remarkable, something that identifies him as God.

Make religion attractive, make good men wish it were true, and then show that it is. Worthy of reverence because it really understands human nature. Attractive because it promises true good.

Order. Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true. The cure for this is first to show that religion is not contrary to reason, but worthy of reverence and respect. Next make it attractive, make good men wish it were true, and then show that it is. Worthy of reverence because it really understands human nature. Attractive because it promises true good.

It's east to see without lookin' too far that not much is really sacred.

It's easy to see without looking too far that not much is really sacred.

Je voudrais pas crever Avant d'avoir usé Sa bouche avec ma bouche Son corps avec mes mains Le reste avec mes yeux J'en dis pas plus faut bien Rester révérencieux

I have known for many years that The Other does not revere the House in the same way I do, but it still shocks me when he talks like this. How can a man as intelligent as him say there is nothing alive in this House?

They mistake their star, these papery godfolk.

Certain poems and lines of poetry seem as solid and miraculous to me as church altars or the coronation of queens must seem to people who revere quite different images.

You are not here to verify, instruct yourself, or inform curiosity or carry report. You are here to kneel where prayer has been valid. And prayer is more than an order of words, the conscious occupation of the praying mind, or the sound of the voice praying.

He could not use her or profane her, this mirror image of his life.

She bowed herself almost to the ground before Sarmur's daughter, with the flamboyant courtesy of one who secretly rules the kingdom.