Quotes About Veneration

Our ancestors had a particular veneration for St. Maurus, under the Norman kings; and the noble family of Seymour (from the French Saint Maur) borrow from him its name, as Camden observes in his Remains.

This Rock has become an object of veneration in the United States. I have seen bits of it carefully preserved in several towns in the Union. Does this sufficiently show that all human power and greatness is in the soul of man? Here is a stone which the feet of a few outcasts pressed for an instant; and the stone becomes famous; it is treasured by a great nation; its very dust is shared as a relic.

Most ecclesiastical relics are fixed in time at the moment of their manufacture. That is why they are offered for veneration in casings that resemble pocket watches. They have lost their claim to mystery because they are so clearly the products of time.

Within Western art the dead white body has often been a sight of veneration, an object of beauty. While Christ on the cross may often be an image of agony, it is also one of beauty, with the suffering itself part of the transcendent beauty. In

Regii È™i conÈ›ii aveau nevoie de dovezi ale vener?rii È™i, cu cât, erau de rang mai mic, cu atât pretindeau mai mult respect.

We understand at some level why combat veterans shrink from sharing their stories: we don't want to know them. In our sometimes-frenzied veneration of war heroes, we are too eager to rush past the shadowed doorway where lurks what the poet Peter Marin calls "the terrible and demanding wisdom" of war.

Nous avons chacun une vieille mère, qui n'est pas forcément notre mère de sang, mais que nous vénérons pour des motifs immémoriaux

Let us display our loyalty and love and embrace every opportunity to become wealthy and strong; let our first object be the veneration of the Imperial Court, which vouchsafes its protection to the commonwealth, and let those who hold the reins of government consider the general good.

Jailbait," he declared, leaping up. "You're a saint. A goddess, even.

I knew, right then, that no matter how bedraggled I looked or how blank he tried to keep his face, I was a goddess to him.

Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth.

Man is a venerating animal. He venerates as easily as he purges himself. When they take away from him the gods of his fathers he looks for others abroad.

The most interesting emerging religion is Dataism, which venerates neither gods nor man – it worships data.

dharma incluye todo aquello que sustenta la vida de manera natural: la felicidad, la verdad, el deber, la virtud, la admiración, la adoración, la veneración, el aprecio, la pasividad, el amor, el respeto a uno mismo.

Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature, and you will find that, behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in fact, religious.

Strange that the British, who so venerated their own churches, should thus have desecrated ours

Felines were venerated and worshiped in ancient Egypt as the embodiment of goddess Bastet's spirit. In fact, the Egyptians respected cats so much that the invading Persians adorned their shields with them in 525 BC in the hope that the Egyptians would refuse to throw spears at them. They were right, and the Persians won the battle.

This is devotion to God - the fear of God, which is an attitude of reverence and awe, veneration, and honor toward Him, coupled with an apprehension deep within our souls of the love of God for us, demonstrated preeminently in Christ's atoning death. These two attitudes complement and reinforce each other, producing within our souls an intense desire for this One who is so awesome in His glory and majesty, yet so condescending in His love and mercy.

You surround the dead with veneration and memory, you dream of immortality, and in your myths and legends there's always someone being resurrected, conquering death. But were your esteemed late great-grandfather really to suddenly rise from the grave and order a beer, panic would ensue.

Distortion and suppression of the truth is encouraged by a prevailing attitude of scientism, not science itself but rather a certain attitude of veneration toward science as the exclusive means of obtaining truth

We live in a culture that venerates scores. We affix numbers to how much fat is in our mochachinos, how quickly our telephones suck information from the air, how much pain we're in. Reading, too, has become a skill to quantifiably assess.

nacionalismo, como uma ideologia, é perigoso apenas à medida que as ideologias são perigosas. Ocupa o espaço deixado vago pela religião e, ao fazê-lo, estimula o verdadeiro crente a venerar a ideia nacionalista e a buscar nesta concepção aquilo que ela não pode oferecer — o propósito último da vida, o caminho da redenção e o consolo para todas as aflições.

Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the descernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in fact, religious.

Da, e lucru îngrozitor s? cazi în mâinile r?ului reîncarnat. - Atunci, întreab? doctorul Poole, de ce continuaÈ›i s?-L veneraÈ›i? - De ce arunci mâncare unui tigru care mâr?ie?Ca s? câÈ™tigi un moment de respiro. Ca s? amâni oroarea inevitabilului, fie È™i pentru câteva minute. ?i pe P?mânt e la fel ca-n Iad - dar cel puÈ›in eÈ™ti tot pe P?mânt.