Quotes About Reverence

Seldom had a potential murderess been so reverenced and pitied by his victim.

Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!

Two duties belong to our souls. One is to reverently marvel. The other is humbly to endure, always taking pleasure in God. He wants us to remember that life is short and it won't be long until we clearly see, within him, all that we desire.

Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?

My dear, this is no ordinary somebody. It is the great sage Durvasas, the irascible. See how he strides away!

There, where millions of Krishnas stand with hands folded, Where millions of Vishnus bow their heads, Where millions of Brahmâs are reading the Vedas, Where millions of Shivas are lost in contemplation, Where millions of Indras dwell in the sky, Where the demi-gods and the munis are unnumbered, Where millions of Saraswatis, Goddess of Music, play on the vina— There is my Lord self-revealed: and the scent of sandal and flowers dwells in those deeps.

war or no war, you will and always will be my queen

The next day it's Virginia Woolf who wafts through. Hers is a curiously insistent presence; take your eyes off her for a moment and the next thing you know she's rearranging your syntax as though it were cutlery improperly laid out for a seven-course meal with some foreign dignitary who disdains your nation's table manners.

Dying is common. Living is an outright scarcity. He who believes in death, will soon begin to revere life. He who believes in tomorrow, will have no value for today.

Since I was a very small child, I've had a kind of reverence for the past, and I felt a very intimate connection with it.

You don't criticise Totti in Italy. There might have been reasons to, sometimes, but you don't touch him.

Only a jerk would talk politics on Mother's Day.

I love Jesus, and I cannot hide that.

I'd like to spend a day in Jesus's life. That'd be the most insane thing ever. I would love to do that.

I've never revved my car at a light for an attractive woman or an auto-rival, not even as a joke.

True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

Cuánto daño, y todavía se reverencia e idolatra a uno de los más grandes destructores de la economía nacional! Casi se le reza ante los altares de la patria a este soñador suicida que hundió más en la miseria a quien deseaba ayudar. Cárdenas nos condujo al infierno, eso sí, con paternal cariño…

Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.

Every year that we grow in the Lord, Jesus Christ looms larger and greater in our eyes.

Every tradition grows ever more venerable—the more remote is its origin, the more confused that origin is. The reverence due to it increases from generation to generation. The tradition finally becomes holy and inspires awe.

Christopher Reeve did such an amazing job that to give him some kind of accent or more bravado would have been wrong. Audiences wouldn't have responded to that either.

He met Lightsong's eyes. "You are a god. To me, at least. It doesn't matter how easily you can be killed, how much Breath you have, or how you look. It has to do with who you are and what you mean.

The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second something to reverence." —George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans, English novelist, 1819–1880)

Authentic faith leads us to treat others with unconditional seriousness and to a loving reverence for the mystery of the human personality. Authentic Christianity should lead to maturity, personality, and reality. It should fashion whole men and women living lives of love and communion. False, manhandled religion produces the opposite effect. Whenever religion shows contempt or disregards the rights of persons, even under the noblest pretexts, it draws us away from reality and God.