Quotes About Reverence

Een kind hebben betekent zich absoluut uitspreken voor de mens. Als ik een kind heb, dan is het alsof ik zou zeggen: Ik ben geboren, ik heb het leven geproefd en ben er achter gekomen dat het goed genoeg is en dat het verdient herhaald te worden.

To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love.

I just felt my good fortune, and I also trust my love for the book, my love for the material, and my reverence for Stephen King.

Because God created the Natural - invented it out of His love and artistry - it demands our reverence.

Our lives are a response to a love that we already have received.

We have grown so accustomed to the idea of divine love...that we no longer sense the awe that God's coming should awaken in us.

The soul hath snatched up mine all faint and weak,And placed it by thee on a golden throne,-- And that I love (O soul, we must be meek!)Is by thee only, whom I love alone.

All things are important to Elôm, even the little things.

...I put you on the pedestal - made you a saint - dare I blaspheme?...

In manustuas, Domine!

We revere the absolute but are bound to the transitory.

A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the Universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths.

In its encounter with Nature, science invariably elicits a sense of reverence and awe. The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos. And the cumulative worldwide build-up of knowledge over time converts science into something only a little short of a trans-national, trans-generational meta-mind.

it does not become us to be so curious and inquisitive in these Things which the Supreme Creator seems to have kept for his own Knowledge: For since he has not been pleased to make any farther Discovery or Revelation of them, it seems little better than presumption to make any inquiry into that which he has thought fit to hide. But these Gentlemen must be told

Art reveals the artist's inner self. Art reveals a man's ideals, what he values. Anyone with that much reverence, that much passion for the nobility of the human spirit, could only be a man who shares my passion for life.

Stand before your god, bow before your king, kneel before your man.

To this day, my spiritual life is found inside the heart of the wild. I do not fear it, I court it. When I am away, I anticipate my return, needing to touch stone, rock, water, the trunks of trees, the sway of grasses, the barbs of a feather, the fur left behind by a shedding bison.

Species other than man have rights, too. Having finished all the requisites of our proud, materialistic civilization, our neon-lit society, does nature, which is the basis of our existence, have the right to live on? Do we have enough reverence for life to concede to wilderness this right?

I have learned that there is no such thing as one portrait or one story, only the knowledge of our own experience shared. I no longer see America's national parks as 'our best idea,' but our evolving idea; I see our national parks as our ongoing struggle as a diverse people to create circles of reverence in a time of collective cynicism where we are wary of being moved by anything but our own clever perspective.

We, the people, have made mistakes. We have made mistakes in our relationships with those who came before us and the land that holds their histories. We have made mistakes in how we have managed and misunderstood the wild. But after spending a lifetime immersed in our national parks, I believe we are slowly learning what it means to offer our reverence and respect to the closest thing we as American citizens have to sacred lands. Our national parks are places of recognition.

person always deserves your full respect. Reverence is the nature

Un sentiment de vénération montait en lui. Il savait que ce sentiment n'était autre que ce qu'il avait toujours été pour le reste de l'humanité, c'est-à-dire le respect de soi-même.

I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath.

Peace is based on respect for life, the spirit of reverence for life.