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Quotes About Honoring

Not to enjoy God is to dishonor Him.
~ John Piper
The way we honor Christ in death is to treasure Jesus above the gift of life, and the way we honor Christ in life is to treasure Jesus above life's gifts.
~ John Piper
Biblical headship for the husband is the divine calling to take primary responsibility for Christlike, servant-leadership, protection and provision in the home. Biblical submission for the wife is the divine calling to honor and affirm her husband's leadership and help carry it through accroding to her gifts.
~ John Piper
If we aim in what we do to display God's glory, we worship.
~ John Piper
God is not worshiped where He is not treasured and enjoyed. Praise is not an alternative to joy, but the expression of joy. Not to enjoy God is to dishonor Him. To say to Him that something else satisfies you more is the opposite of worship. It is sacrilege.
~ John Piper
Honoring artists on a par with military heroes was a humanistic innovation intiated at Brunelleschi's death in 1446.
~ John T. Spike
We can toast the soldier without honoring the war.
~ John V. Denson
As the sun goes down, let the voice of prayer and the hymn of praise mark the close of the sacred hours and invite God's presence through the cares of the week of labor. Thus parents can make the Sabbath, as it should be, the most joyful day of the week. They can lead their children to regard it as a delight, the day of days, the holy of the Lord, honorable. —Testimonies for the Church, vol. 6, pp. 358, 359.
~ Ellen G. White
I wanted to really delve into the idea of reckoning with difficult things in one's past - and celebrating the joyful things, and honoring the stories that have made me who I am.
~ Arlo Parks
Oregonians aren't the only ones who recognize the extraordinary service and sacrifice of their state's National Guard.
~ Ron Wyden
If you're going to have a Hall of Fame, you've got to have Owen Hart in the Hall of Fame.
~ Bret Hart
I'm really excited to be a part of the 'Fallen Heroes' EP.
~ Alissa White-Gluz
It was to be no more who should rule, but who should serve; no more who should look down upon his fellows from the conquered heights of authority—even of sacred authority, but who should look up honouring humanity, and ministering unto it, so that humanity itself might at length be persuaded of its own honour as a temple of the living God. It was to impress this lesson upon them that he showed them the child. Therefore, I repeat, the lesson lay in the childhood of the child.
~ George MacDonald
Bilateral negotiations with a tyrant rarely turn out well for a democracy. Because they are subjected to little accountability, totalitarian regimes face no pressure to honor their word. They are free to break agreements and then make new demands. A democracy has a choice: give in or provoke a confrontation.
~ George W. Bush
For working people and union members, Labor Day stands for something special and profound. It's a day to honor the deep commitment each of us has to serve the children we teach, the families we heal, and the communities we love.
~ Randi Weingarten
The nice thing about 'Futurama' for me personally was that it was a way to honor some of the traditional ideas in literary science fiction, not so much movie or television science fiction - although we have that too, obviously. Our situation, a workplace comedy, led to all sorts of stuff.
~ Matt Groening
The World Cup has its own space that needs to be respected.
~ Ravi Shastri
To raise, to elevate, to endorse with timeless reverence the image of woman has been my mission.
~ Ruth Bernhard
The sacred title of 'father' is shared with the Almighty.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
No matter what happens, I'll never be the greatest cruiserweight. That title belongs to Holyfield.
~ Tony Bellew
What Jesus has in mind here is not fear about speaking but profound respect for the gloriousness of the gospel, a desire to honor God, and an approach to gospeling that does the most service to Christ. In other words, we need to ask if speaking up in a given situation will honor or vilify Christ, and then to act accordingly.
~ Scot McKnight
Your lifetime in form is to be honored and celebrated. Go beyond your enslavement, and live fully in the now, as this is the only time you have.
~ Wayne Dyer
I hope by the time that I'm done in this game, I can have half the numbers Stan Musial had in his career.
~ Albert Pujols
Did you know that the highest form of respect for the Navajo is to call someone Grandfather? In fact, that's how they address God.
~ Martha Williamson