Quotes About Reverence

We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. It is held in reverence. Some think it the voice of God." —MARK TWAIN, "Corn-Pone Opinions" (1901)

Maybe it was time to hit the reset button on the world. Make people see that there were consequences to their actions. Make them remember what they had and value it enough to protect it.

Tu ne leur ferais pas l'injure de tes hommages

Nympha pudica Deum vidit, et erubuit.

but one can't be irredeemable who shows reverence for books.

one can't be irredeemable who shows reverence for books.

Avoid, which many grave men have not done, words taken from sacred subjects and from elevated poetry: these we have seen vilely prostituted. Avoid too the society of the barbarians who misemploy them.

You could do worse than to be amazed. *

As you swallow the cow's tongue, think for a moment about how strange and holy that is, to devour the tongue of another. To steal from it all its power to speak, to low at the moon, to call to its calf. To be worthy of such food you must guard your own words carefully, speaking only the wise and clever ones, lest your tongue end up likewise, on the plate of a rich man.

For what is a god but what we go to again and again?

Christ plays in ten thousand places, Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his To the Father through the features of men's faces.

Daar, in dat meubelloze, ondanks de gezinsgrootte lege kamertje, temidden van de stapel naar verschaalde terpentijn riekende kerstbomen, ervoer ik voor het eerst in volle hevigheid de verlatenheid, die de onmiddellijke nabijheid van een in stomme aanbidding vereerd maar voor altijd onbereikbaar wezen inhoudt.

the motto "Shop less, live more, save the earth," the team at Operation Noah, anxious about climate change, is promoting a series of events throughout Advent encouraging people to experience Advent in its traditional sense—as a period of "quiet reflection and eager anticipation for the birth of Christ" rather than a time to buy and consume.

Her hope was to preserve what she called The Way, to keep it alive, for that future moment when the current obsession with excess and hierarchy imploded. Wilma said many Native people believed that the earth as a living organism would just one day shrug off the human species that was destroying it—and start over. In a less cataclysmic vision, humans would realize that we are killing our home and each other, and seek out The Way. That's why Native people were guarding it.

Our Lager, which art in barrels, Hallowed be thy Drink. Thy will be drunk at home, As it is in the pub. Give us this day our foamy head. And forgive us our spillages, As we forgive those who spill against us. And lead us not into incarceration, But deliver us from hangovers. For thine is the beer, The bitter, the lager. For ever and ever. Barmen.

Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. He recounts the decency and regularity of former times, and celebrates the discipline and sobriety of the age in which his youth was passed; a happy age which is now no more to be expected, since confusion has broken in upon the world, and thrown down all the boundaries of civility and reverence.

We strive to be God's worthy audience.

When nothing is revered, irreverence ceases to indicate critical thought.

shrine of Loreto.

Why is it, Reverend Hale, that we must always laugh at our book, but always revere yours?

Rabbi Akiba said: Israel must not be like the pagans, thanking their wooden gods when good happens and cursing them when evil comes. When good comes, the Jews thank God, and when evil comes, they thank Him too.

The strong, calm man is always loved and revered. He is like a shade-giving tree in a thirsty land, or a sheltering rock in a storm.

The calm guy, having learned how to govern himself, knows the way to adapt himself to others; and they, in turn, reverence his non secular energy, and sense that they could examine of him and rely upon him. The more tranquil a man turns into, the greater is his achievement, his have an impact on, his strength for accurate.

John's heart was hardened against the Lord. His father was God's minister, the ambassador of the King of Heaven, and John could not bow before the throne of grace without first kneeling to his father.