Quotes About Reverence

Humility, a sense of reverence before the sons of heaven - of all the prizes that a mortal man might win, these, I say, are wisest; these are best.

Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.

There are men whose presence infuses trust and reverence.

When we are dead : it is the living only who cannot be forgiven the living only from whom men's indulgence and reverence are held off, like the rain by the hard east wind .

It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death hallows him anew to us; as if life were not sacred too.

The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue.

To the Bible men will return; and why? Because they cannot do without it.

Reverence is a good thing, and part of its value is that the more we revere a man, the more sharply are we struck by anything in him (and there is always much) that is incongruous with his greatness.

Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me. I love Rome.

The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.

I should be glad if all the meadows on the earth were left in a wild state, if that were the consequence of men's beginning to redeem themselves.

Men reverence one another, not yet God.

A man might well pray that he may not taboo or curse any portion of nature by being buried in it.

Men can make an idol of the Bible.

Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

Children know the grace of god better than most of us. They see the world the way the morning brings it back to them; new and born and fresh and wonderful.

Don't tell your kids you had an easy birth or they won't respect you. For years I used to wake up my daughter and say, 'Melissa you ripped me to shreds. Now go back to sleep.'.

Today, we see the reemergence of reverence for the Divine Mother that we knew in past ages.

So why in the name of Merlin's saggy left —" "Don't talk to your mother like that.

Ye shall fear every man his mother and his father.

I always appreciated the magnitude of my mother's imagination. She always saw beauty in what was broken, and she'd preserve it.

In ancient times cats were worshiped as gods; they have not forgotten this.

The highest mission of music is to serve as a link between God and Man.

A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart.