Quotes About Veneration

We are images of God. When we venerate images, we're not merely exchanging the glory of God for the glory of creation. We give up our own glory. We're alienated from our own vocation.

Siempre he venerado, del catolicismo, su sistema de pensamiento completo, que se enfrenta a todas las dificultades íntimas del hombre y les da una exquisita e irremplazable solución

reverence, maybe

Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds, in infinite number, to be its reward or punishment.

Vi a engrenagem do amor e a modificação da morte, vi o Aleph, de todos os pontos, vi no Aleph a terra, e na terra outra vez o Aleph, e no Aleph a terra, vi meu rosto e minhas vísceras, vi teu rosto e senti vertigem e chorei, porque meus olhos haviam visto esse objeto secreto e conjetural cujo nome usurpam os homens, mas que nenhum homem olhou: o inconcebível universo. Senti infinita veneração, infinita lástima.

Qué humildad y sencillez la de Dios, que ponía en la cumbre de todo lo creado a una mujer humilde. Coronaba su obra magnífica con la gema de la humildad. Muchos ángeles sin dudar se postraron ante los designios de Dios, y acto seguido veneraron a la Virgen María Madre de Dios y Reina de los Ángeles.

I colori da noi tutti fervidamente amati, attestano la nostra venerazione del passato. In qualità di socialisti nazionali riconosciamo nella bandiera il nostro programma. Nel rosso ravvisiamo l'idea sociale del movimento, nel bianco l'idea nazionalista, nella croce uncinata la missione di combattere per la vittoria dell'uomo ariano antisemitico

Strange thing, this hero worship of ours.

for the first time in human history, nature has become a major subject of investigation, instead of being an object of veneration. Consequently, all the resources of the earth are being and will continue to be exploited. This has been referred to thus in

Roast beef and plum pudding are also held in superstitious veneration, and port and sherry maintain their grounds as the only true English wines; all others being considered vile, outlandish beverages.

In retelling these events, I have fought against a tendency to sentimentalize Julian, to make him seem very saintly—basically to falsify him—in order to make our veneration of him seem more explicable; to make it seem something more, in short, than my own fatal tendency to try to make interesting people good.

Sempre achei curioso o facto das mulheres serem veneradas como deusas, enquanto na vida quotidiana são remetidas para um papel secundário e consideradas inferiores.

This, then, was the religion that I was raised with: veneration for human creativity and the power of ideas.

Respected, I almost want to be revered, that's what I'm chasing.

Cubans tend to have personal and complex relationships with Fidel Castro, often combining feelings of veneration, respect, or love with frustration or even hate.

No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him.

He, who boldly interposes between a merciless censor and his prey, is a man of vigor: and he who, mildly wise, without wounding, convinces him of his error, commands our veneration.

In this world there is one godlike thing, the essence of all that was or ever will be of godlike in this world: the veneration done to Human Worth by the hearts of men.

Who confers reputation? who gives respect and veneration to persons, to books, to great men? Who but Opinion? How utterly insufficient are all the riches of the world without her approbation!

But he has gone, A nation's memory and veneration, Among the radiant, ever venturing on, Somewhere, with morning, as such spirits will.

In the Eucharistic Sacrifice the Church venerates the memory of Mary the ever Virgin Mother of God and the memory of Saint Joseph, because he fed Him whom the faithful must eat as the Bread of Life

God demands a conversion of the mind and heart as the basis of peace and security (cf. Is 26:3), not the superstitious veneration of a stone building or a traditionally sacred site

Venerate the martyrs, praise, love, proclaim, honor them. But worship the God of the martyrs.

I do honor the very flea of his dog.