Quotes About Veneration

Someone we regard highly comes closer to us when he performs an action unworthy of him--thereby he releases us from the cavalry of veneration. And starting from that moment we feel a true attachment to him.

Modernization did not demote the elderly. It demoted the family. It gave people—the young and the old—a way of life with more liberty and control, including the liberty to be less beholden to other generations. The veneration of elders may be gone, but not because it has been replaced by veneration of youth. It's been replaced by veneration of the Independent self.

The veneration of elders may be gone, but not because it has been replaced by veneration of youth. It's been replaced by veneration of the independent self.

researchers argue that it's of utmost importance to unravel the nature of black holes, lest we someday begin to worship them. Sounds ridiculous, but whole segments of humankind have often revered the unknowable, venerating that which cannot be tested experimentally. Come to think of it, many still do in twenty-first-century society.

I agree that sometimes Michelle Obama can come across as angry - and anger is discomforting. We venerate that empty word, closure, wanting to seal off the pain of the past and refusing it admittance to the chirpy present. This, of course, is nonsense.

I worship the quicksand he walks in.

the disparity between Americans' veneration of the Bible and their understanding of it, painting a picture of a nation that believes God has spoken in scripture but can't be bothered to listen to what God has to say.

I was summoned by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love.

Religion, in refusing to degrade you, has placed in doubt the crime imputed to you; the government, in surrounding your case with mystery and shadow, gives reason for belief in some error, committed in fatal moments; and all the Philippines, in venerating your memory and calling you martyrs, in no way acknowledges your guilt.

Native gods, called anitos, were often not abandoned, but instead were transformed into saints and were often venerated in small chapels attached to private homes.

Among the sentiments of most powerful operation upon the human heart, and most highly honorable to the human character, are those of veneration for our forefathers and of love for our posterity.

Ti amava - protestai. Lei mi fissò. Pensavo che stesse per esplodere, ma si limitò a sorridere e a scuotere la testa. - Mi venerava, Derfel - disse in tono stanco - e non è la stessa cosa che essere amata. Si lasciò cadere su uno sgabello, accanto alla cassapanca di legno. - Essere venerata, Derfel, è una cosa che stanca, a lungo andare.

If I forget thee, O Vulcan, let my eyes lose their fire, my blood lose its flame, and my intellect its keenness.

To earn an ally, be an ally. Many, if not most, spirits possess sacred animals, plants, or places. Working on their behalf is an act of veneration and should eventually attract favor and attention.

The empire of angels is as vast as God's creation. If you believe the Bible, you will believe in their ministry.

To Hesiod in Greece in the late seventh century BCE, water was under the special care of the gods and was a purifying gift from them, to be treated with veneration. "Never cross the sweet-flowing water of ever-rolling rivers afoot," he entreated us, "until you have prayed, gazing into the soft flood, and washed your hands in the clear, lovely water."[2]

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

Desde aquella noche en la que el hombre que yo más veneraba me abrió su destino como se abre una dura concha, desde aquella noche de hace cuarenta años, me parece infantil e insignificante todo lo que nuestros narradores y poetas cuentan en los libros como extraordinario y todo lo que en los teatros se disfraza de tragedia.

O "chaísmo" é um culto que se fundamenta na veneração da beleza em meio à sordidez dos acontecimentos diários. Incute a pureza e a harmonia, o mistério da caridade mútua, o romantismo da ordem social. É essencialmente a veneração do imperfeito, uma tentativa singela de conquistar o possível em meio a esta coisa impossível que conhecemos como vida.

True admiration," said Mrs. Keith, "is one half respect and the other half self-denial.

Relics are treasured as something close to the divine.

Un sentiment de vénération montait en lui. Il savait que ce sentiment n'était autre que ce qu'il avait toujours été pour le reste de l'humanité, c'est-à-dire le respect de soi-même.

before the huge bronze altar, called a "high place," that was situated just outside the city. High places were elevated platforms and altars devoted to the worship of the gods. Molech worship included veneration of the dead, which would be invoked to protect their forces against the living.

The situation in which a native spirit becomes more highly venerated than Buddhist gods by a S?t? temple supposedly dedicated to the practice of zazen, and yet still is recognized as having a malevolent potential requiring exorcism, becomes a focal point for rethinking the function of syncretism in Zen.