Quotes About Reverence

Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.

Part of the failing of mainstream history has been a reverential air often appended to the colonial era, underpinned by a rose-tinted nostalgia for a lost empire.

I don't fetishize objects.

To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.

He had so much damn respect he wanted to scream.

it made him want to sing hymns he'd never even heard before

If there is no awe, there is no audience.

I don't pray really, because I don't want to bore God.

Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling, and Domine non sum dignus should be on the lips and in the hearts of those who receive it.

When respect is shown according to what is proper, one keeps far from shame and disgrace.

Si vos parents tombent dans une faute, avertissez-les avec grande douceur. Si vous les voyez déterminés à ne pas suivre vos avis, redoublez vos témoignages de respect, sans vous opposer. Quand même ils vous maltraiteraient, n'en ayez aucun ressentiment. 

?????? 'while respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them

Nor does God whisper through the trees. His voice is not to be mistaken. When men hear it they fall to their knees and their souls are riven and they cry out to Him and there is no fear but only wildness of heart that springs from such longing...

What he loved in horses was what he loved in men, the blood and the heat of the blood that ran them. All his reverence and all his fondness and all the leanings of his life were for the ardenhearted and they would always be so and never be otherwise.

God speaks in the least of creatures.

All his reverence and all his fondness and all the leanings of his life were for the ardenthearted and they would always be so and never be otherwise.

Then he just sat there holding the binoculars and watching the ashen daylight congeal over the land. He knew only that the child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.

What he loved in horses was what he loved in men, the blood and the heat of the blood that ran them. All his reverence and all his fondness and all the leanings of his life were for the ardenthearted and they would always be so and never be otherwise.

If you think that the dignity of your life cannot be cancelled with the stroke of a pen then I think you should think again.

if it's great reverence you're looking for, or earnest expressions of gratitude - well, then you don't work with kids.

I enjoyed making them, and if it's great reverence you're looking for, or earnest expressions of gratitude - well, then you don't work with kids.

We the darker ones come even now not altogether empty-handed: there are to-day no truer exponents of the pure human spirit of the Declaration of Independence than the American Negroes; there is no true American music but the wild sweet melodies of the Negro slave; the American fairy tales and folklore are Indian and African; and, all in all, we black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness.

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

Why should I pray? Why should I venerate and be ceremonious?