Quotes About Reverence

But be warned! The book is an inconceivably impressive sharpening of the commandment 'Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain'.

Creation is grace: a statement at which we should like best to pause in reverence, fear and gratitude. God does not grudge the existence of the reality distinct from Himself; He does not grudge it its own reality, nature and freedom.

People say Americans like coming to England to see the old stuff 'cos they haven't got any old things in their own country, but they would if they stopped crushing it or blowing shit up.

Man, if he would live, must worship. He looks around, and what to him, within the vision of his life, is the greatest and the best, that he falls down and does reverence to.

The greatest act of faith takes place when a man finally decides that he is not God.

To yield reverence to another, to hold ourselves and our lives at his disposal, is not slavery; often, it is the noblest state in which a man can live in this world.

The sight of one old man kneeling on all fours in front of me assembling a picnic table was enough to put all thoughts of lunch out of my head, possibly for life.

When you love, love as if the person is a god, not less than that. Never love a woman as a woman and never love a man as a man.

To sanctify God is to reverence Him in our hearts, and to represent Him in the glory of His holiness before men.

Man's insulting God is not reversed by our insulting man.

With out some kind of god, man is not very intresting

We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness.

Noble men in the quiet of morning hear Indians singing the continent's violent requiem.

No man can adequately reach and explain a single word of God with all his words

When a woman veils her body in modest clothing, she is not hiding herself from men. On the contrary, she is revealing her dignity to them.

One may take many liberties with God which one cannot take with men.

Men sunk in the greatest darkness imaginable retain some sense and awe of the Deity.

Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.

Oh good gray head which all men knew!

Reverence for the Supreme Being, based upon His supposed resemblance to man. The pig is taught by sermons and epistles / To think the God of Swine has snout and bristles.

Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.

Kira, the highest thing in man is not his god. It's that in him which knows the reverence due a god. And you, Kira, are my highest reverence.

Trample not on the ruins of a man.

Whatever a man imagines he can attain, if he doesn't become too arrogant and encroach on the rights of the gods.