Quotes About Reverence

Of course she had read this work many times before, but there were certain parts to which she passionately returned: so cool, so elegant, so beautiful, so terrible. As she read tears began to stream down her face.

The fewer the words, the better prayer.

Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives.

A God-intoxicated man.

In the faces of men and women I see God and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is signed by God's name, and I leave them where they are, for I know that wheresoever I go others will punctually come for ever and ever.

Every conjecture we can form with regard to the works of God has as little probability as the conjectures of a child with regard to the works of a man.

What is there in man so worthy of honor and reverence as this, that he is capable of contemplating something higher than his own reason, more sublime than the whole universe- that Spirit which alone is self-subsis-tent, from which all truth proceeds, without which there is no truth?

We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.

It is said that no man is a hero to his valet. That is because a hero can be recognized only by a hero.

The higher truths are, the more cautious one must be with them; otherwise, they are converted into common things, and common things are not believed.

We must guard against disrespectful, disparaging, and criticizing thoughts. We must try to practice reverence and devotion in our thinking at all times.

I don't look at a knife the way I used to. I'm more aware of what it is. I think twice. This is a key finger. It's in every chord.

I feel nervous because I revere [Zadie Smith] so much. I don't want to be stupid. If I say something stupid, just interrupt me.

I have a feeling of reverence about my father being in his 80s - a feeling that I want to whisper, take soft steps, not intrude too much. He's like a stately old cathedral to me now.

For me, when you have to prepare to play God, and then walking away from that, you realize just how tough God's job is. I don't want that job.

The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.

We are allowed to worship him. Stand in that reverent attitude to the whole universe, and then will come perfect non attachment

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

I think in the media we tend to deify people in these public spaces.

Love, Hope, and Reverence are realities of a different order from the senses, but they are positive and constant facts, always active, always working out mighty changes in human life.

When you healed this tree, I felt like the leaves waved and made gentle sounds. Maybe the tree was saying thank you.

Reverence, humility, contentment, gratitude and hearing the good Dhamma, this is the best good luck.

In their intense meditation the hidden sound of things approaching reaches them and they listen reverently while in the street outside the people hear nothing at all.

O Fiend, whose talisman was that fatal symbol, wouldst thou leave nothing, whether in youth or age, for this poor sinner to revere?—such loss of faith is ever one of the saddest results of sin.