Quotes About Reverence

It was very rare that the old Cap'n swore, for he was a sound Churchman, and when he did swear it was with a sort of reverence.

There are people passing by in their cars unaware and unassuming but I'm praying they'll look over and watch me worship you.

I am willing to salaam anyone. One thing you won't find in me and that is ego. - Dhirubhai Ambani

I like the sea, but it's not a creature I want to take liberties with.

he praises the unknowability of the world and the miracles, far exceeding all comprehension, that lie hidden in the unfathomable depths of the least of its parts. Only such a sense of reverence can be the true presupposition for knowing the far more unknowable God.

They stood in reverential quiet, as they did most visits, but Mara heard Lillian whisper a fragment of an Emily Dickinson poem: From Cocoon forth a Butterfly As Lady from her Door Mara

Look at everything in plain sight. The bed, the table, every object you see has likely been in the world longer than us, and they'll still be in the world when we're gone. It is the things that have a history, L. Compared to them we are ghosts.

Goodness!" he cried. "Golly! Good God! Blessed Allah! Zeus and Hera! Mary and Joseph! Nathaniel Hawthorne!

If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

We are first worshipers.  We should be able to go into any atmosphere where there is worship, and throw off whatever sound or style we are accustomed to and worship the Creator of all things.  We deny ourselves-- we are not the center... He is.  Is He not worthy?

Surely, in history, "truth should be held sacred, at whatever cost.

I honour your circumspection

Holy Crap,' Carolli said. 'You shot Jesus. That's gonna take a lot of Hail Marys.

That Mary had chosen to do the best thing, and that it would not be taken from her." Martha spoke as matter-of-factly as she would about the weather. "I saw then that there are many ways to serve our Lord. Some like you and I do it through action. Others like Mary do it through reverence.

Here's the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family, which is why a child born today of unmarried parents in Sweden has a better chance of growing up in a house with both of his parents than a child born to a married couple in America. Here we revere the couple, there they revere the family.

I demand for the unmarried mother, as a sacred channel of life, the same reverence and respect as for the married mother; for Maternity is a cosmic thing and once it has come to pass, our conversation must not be permitted to blaspheme it.

It's embarrassing sometimes, the way actors or musicians sometimes get made untouchable.

With an older generation, there's some weight carried with the Beatles. There's almost like an untouchable, god-like force field around them.

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

For somebody in my neighborhood to aspire or revere a person from the upper class, that is the most ugly and pathetic behavior you could exhibit.

Too fair to worship too divine to love.

Help Nature and work on with her; and Nature will regard thee as one of her creators . . . she will lay bare before thy gaze the treasures hidden in the depths of her pure virgin bosom.

But if it's true it's beautiful. Truth is beautiful. And so my whole work is about what amounts to a reverence for life itself.

Worship is not something we "work up," it is something that "comes down" to us, from the character of God.