Top 100 Quotes About Reverence
#1. The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold. 69 L
Oswald Chambers
#2. One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.
Pauline Kael
#3. I exhort all, who reverence the Word of the Lord, to read it, and diligently imprint it on their memory.
John Calvin
#4. Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.
Amos Bronson Alcott
#5. We reverence God and we hallow God's name when our life is such that it brings honor to God and attracts others to Him.
William Barclay
#6. The idea of vegetarianism is of immense value; it is based on great reverence for life.
Rajneesh
#7. Prayer is listening as well as speaking, receiving as well as asking; and its deepest mood is friendship held in reverence. So the daily prayer should end as it begins - in adoration.
George Arthur Buttrick
#8. It takes a while for revelry to turn to reverence, and much repetition of truth to eventual turn young zeal into habitual channels for good.
Elisabeth Elliot
#9. Since I was a very small child, I've had a kind of reverence for the past, and I felt a very intimate connection with it.
Hilary Mantel
#10. Thread of Selfishness in Web of Life. - Deuteronomy contains much instruction regarding what the law is to us, and the relation we shall sustain to God as we reverence and obey
Ellen G. White
#11. Genuine connection to others shows up in the vivid colors of defiance and forgiveness, reverence and rebellion, fighting and fucking: the real stuff.
Matthew B. Crawford
#12. The spinning wheel is itself an exquisite piece of machinery. My head daily bows in reverence to its unknown inventor.
Mahatma Gandhi
#13. The sweet reverence that emanated from his beautiful irises warmed the chilled chambers of my heart. Looking into Hunter's eyes felt like seeing into my own soul.
Adriane Leigh
#14. Let the power come. Let ecstasy erupt. Allow your heart to expand and overflow with adoration for this magnificent creation and for the love, wisdom and power that birthed it all. Rapture is needed now - rapture, reverence and grace.
Ann Mortifee
#15. Although humankind inherently "desires to know", if open access to, and unlimited development of, knowledge henceforth puts us all in clear danger of extinction, then common sense demands that we re-examine our reverence for knowledge.
Bill Joy
#16. The temple is a place of worship. Reverence is a supernal form of worship. It is the form of worship found in the celestial kingdom.
L. Lionel Kendrick
#17. In the final analysis, despite our diversity, there is only one type of vegan
a person who is committed to and practices a reverence and respect for all life.
Joanne Stepaniak
#18. Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. (EPHESIANS 5:21)
Andy Stanley
#19. If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.
Albert Schweitzer
#20. Our reverence for workaholism has produced corporate leaders who believe they don't need sleep, and neither should anyone else.
Stanley Coren
#21. What a sweet reverence is that when a young man deems his mistress a little more than mortal and almost chides himself for longing to bring her close to his heart.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#22. There is no room for God's Word in our culture, where our children are without reverence for God or faith in the Bible. There is no room for our Lord's creed of purity and self-denial when the media sends forth a constant barrage of profanity and indecency and materialism.
Billy Graham
#23. Grownups don't pay it much attention because they can't imagine anything more majestic to a child than their own selves and so confused dependance for reverence.
Toni Morrison
#24. The instinct of worship is still so strong upon us that, having nearly worn out our capacity for treating kings and such kind of persons as sacred, we are ready to invest a majority of our own selves with the same kind of reverence.
Auberon Herbert
#25. Respect, reverence, self-esteem
Are my basic requisites
I refuse to be a competitor
Who struggles for personal rights
Balroop Singh
#26. One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.
Francois Rabelais
#27. 'What is the Unpardonable Sin' asked the lime-burner 'It is a sin that grew within my own breast', replied Ethan Brand 'The sin of an intellect that triumphed over the sense of brotherhood with man and reverence for God'.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#28. There is but one temple in the world, and that is the body of man. Nothing is holier than this high form. Bending before men is a reverence done to this revelation in the flesh. We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body.
Novalis
#29. The greatness of common sense, and its title to reverence, appear in this, that it deals with vast complexity, that is, with the innumerable elements of a situation. Common sense discerns and judges a path through this knotted and tangled maze.
James Vila Blake
#30. His staff had shaken hands with her as though a woman was merely another kind of man. Fools! The seeds of Eve were in this radiant creature. The lullabyes of half a million years throbbed in her throat. Had they no sense of wonder, no reverence, no pride?
Mervyn Peake
#31. But he finally saw
how pain caused
one of two things:
A reverence for life.
Or killing.
Both grew from the same seed.
Cynthia Rylant
#32. In the scriptures the term light-mindedness means making light of sacred things or not taking seriously those eternally significant things that should be treated with reverence (D&C 84:54).
Brent L. Top
#33. sinful motive often hides itself under the mask of reverence for another virtue.")
Jimmy Swaggart
#34. Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#35. We learn to love imperfect people by serving them out of reverence for a perfect God...
Gary Thomas
#36. In no time whatever can small critics entirely eradicate out of living men's hearts a certain altogether peculiar collar reverence for Great Men
genuine admiration, loyalty, adora-tion.
Thomas Carlyle
#37. Let a man use great reverence and manners to himself.
Pythagoras
#38. If we want to give poor people soap we must set out deliberately to give them luxuries. If we will not make them rich enough to be clean, then empathically we must do what we did with the saints. We must reverence them for being dirty.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#39. Once the Western mind was disconnected from its sense of divine responsibility and genuine reverence towards nature, all hell broke loose. And that's where we are.
Marianne Williamson
#40. It is not the reverence for words, but for their meaning that determines our deepness of comprehension of a given assertion about Nature.
Felix Alba-Juez
#41. If you have been suffering with physical ailments or even a spiritual emptiness, I want to share with you what I know to be true: The more love and reverence you give your body, the better you will feel.
Debbie Ford
#42. We must approach religion with reverence and with love, and our heart will stand up and say, this is truth, and this is untruth.
Swami Vivekananda
#43. Reverence for life, veneratio vitae, is the most direct and at the same time the profoundest achievement of my will-to-live.
Albert Schweitzer
#44. George Butterick said, "Prayer is listening as well as speaking, receiving as well as asking. . . . And in the deepest mood is friendship held in reverence.
Marilyn Wilson
#45. Let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God.
Lysa TerKeurst
#46. And let us be seated, gentlemen. Drinking standing up, in a rush and without due reverence, does not become the nobility.' They
Andrzej Sapkowski
#47. A discipline I have observed is an attitude of love and reverence to people.
Bessie Head
#48. I love, when I'm on holiday in cities, going into church and feeling that reverence and that kind of automatic respect: the sort of magic which exists in those kind of religious temples.
James Norton
#49. For a moment I had a strange intuition that just this, and in a real, profound sense, is life; and perhaps happiness even - love with a mixture of sadness, reverence, and silent knowledge.
Erich Maria Remarque
#50. The height of devotion is reached when reverence and contemplation produce passionate worship, which in turn breaks forth in thanksgiving and praise in word and song.
R. Kent Hughes
#51. I saw, for the first time, how thin the line was between fear and love, between reverence and adoration.
Veronica Roth
#52. I think along the way, as we treat nature as model and mentor, and not as a nuisance to be evaded or manipulated, we will certainly acquire much more reverence for life than we seem to be showing right now.
Amory Lovins
#53. BLASPHEMOUS REVERENCE. Acting on the knowledge that the most efficacious form or devotion to the Divine Wow is tinctured with playful or mischievous behavior that prevents the buildup of fanaticism.
Rob Brezsny
#54. There are very few real teachers. Teaching is not a job; it is a vocation. To be a great one many qualities must be combined: love of truth, knowledge, reverence, loving concern for one's students, clarity and patience.
Alice Von Hildebrand
#55. In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.
Martha Graham
#56. Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.
Albert Schweitzer
#57. He who loves goodness harbors angels, reveres reverence, and lives with God.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#58. Feelings of passion, pure bliss, reverence, optimism, trust and illumination indicate that your desire to manifest success and abundance has an extremely strong pulling power from the universal source to you.
Wayne Dyer
#59. [Why] should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book? Its morals are pure, its examples captivating and noble. The reverence for the Sacred Book that is thus early impressed lasts long; and probably if not impressed in infancy, never takes firm hold of the mind.
Fisher Ames
#60. All honour and reverence to the divine beauty of form! Let us cultivate it to the utmost in men, women and children
in our gardens and in our houses. But let us love that other beauty too, which lies in no secret of proportion but in the secret of deep human sympathy.
George Eliot
#61. Playfulness, humour and even a sense of the anarchic are companions of reverence because they insist on the proper proportion of the human presence in the light of the eternal.
John O'Donohue
#62. There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for actors.
Estelle Parsons
#63. We can make these three dynamic words - "reverence for life" - a part of our lives by becoming aware that God is the source of all life and that we are one with life. "The good person," said Schweitzer, "is the friend of all living things."
Wilferd Peterson
#64. I live in a country where we put children in shackles and in concrete cells. Working together, with righteousness and hope, we can create a country that is about reverence and reconciliation, not a world of shackles and concrete cells.
Lateefah Simon
#65. There's a rebel lying deep in my soul. Anytime anybody tells me the trend is such and such, I go the opposite direction. I hate the idea of trends. I hate imitation; I have a reverence for individuality.
Clint Eastwood
#66. Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.
Jack London
#67. He who does reverence to his own sect, while disparaging the sects of others with intent to enhance the glory of his own sect, by such conduct inflicts the severest injury on his own sect.
Ashoka
#68. As he slowed his speed, in reverence to his home, he noticed the long row of trees lining each side of the drive had started to bloom; adding to the beauty of the landscape. As long as he lived, taking the winding drive to the house would always warm his heart and feel like home.
Alex Morgan
#69. The better proof of reverence for that holy name would be not to profane it by making it a topic of legislative discussion ...
James Madison
#70. Celia
Celia, we know, is sixty-five,
Yet Celia's face is seventeen;
Thus winter in her breast must live,
While summer in her face is seen.
How cruel Celia's fate, who hence
Our heart's devotion cannot try;
Too pretty for our reverence,
Too ancient for our gallantry!
Alexander Pope
#71. The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures.
Stewart Udall
#72. Tread softly as you draw near to the bedside of a dying man, for the space around him is holy ground. Speak in hushed tones, with awe and reverence, as you would in a cathedral. Let not the mind engage in trivial thoughts. The awesome majesty of Death can only be met in silence.
Jennifer Worth
#73. One antidote for sexual truancy lies in simply teaching youth the wonder, the miracle, the reverence for the creation of life itself. Life is a divine creation. You don't take chances with creation.
Sam Levenson
#74. We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.
Eric Hoffer
#75. The mystery of life
its inexplicability, beauty, cruelty, tenderness, folly ... has occupied the greater part of my waking thoughts; and in reverence or rage or irony, as the moment or situation might dictate, I have pondered and even demanded of cosmic energy to know Why.
Theodore Dreiser
#76. LET us honour the King by cherishing respectful Sentiments concerning him; speaking of him with Affection, with Esteem and Reverence; and by promoting a like Spirit and Conduct in others.
Charles Inglis
#77. Only as a child's awareness and reverence for the wholeness of life are developed can his humanity to his own kind reach its full development.
Rachel Carson
#78. Pray with reverence, not half-heartedness.
Francis Chan
#79. My Bible tells me that if we train a child in the way he should go, when he is old he will not turn from it. I think faith and guidance can help fortify a young woman's sense of self, a young man's sense of responsibility, and a sense of reverence all young people for the act of sexual intimacy.
Barack Obama
#80. Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
Dale Dauten
#81. Of all the preaching in the world, I hate that preaching which tends to make the hearers laugh, or to move their minds with tickling levity and affect them as stage plays used to, instead of affecting them with a holy reverence for the name of God.
Richard Baxter
#82. The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and love, are curiously in unison with the narrowest and pettiest.
George Eliot
#83. If we have reverence for God, we will have respect for one another.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#84. The reason why Broken Men only became Untouchables was because in addition to being Buddhists, they retained their habit of beef-eating, which gave additional ground for offence to the Brahmins to carry their new-found love and reverence to the cow to its logical conclusion.
B.R. Ambedkar
#85. Magic would always have a place in the world as long as those hints of reverence continued to exist.
Debora Geary
#86. The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
Swami Vivekananda
#87. My respectful study of other religions has not abated my reverence for or my faith in the Hindu scriptures.
Mahatma Gandhi
#88. I am not a morose person, but I would rather not be here. I don't have any reverence for life, only for the entities themselves. I would rather see a blank space where I am. This will sound like fruitcake stuff again but at least I wouldn't be harming anything.
Ingrid Newkirk
#89. Rather than respond to his incalculable God-ness with our slide rules and flowcharts, we would do better to worship him with reverence and awe.
Matt Chandler
#90. I had a theoretical reverence and homage for beauty, elegance, gallantry, fascination but had I met those qualities incarnate in masculine shape, I should have known instinctively that they had nor could have sympathy with anything in me ...
Charlotte Bronte
#92. We must have in us enough reverence for all things outside us to make us tread fearfully on the grass. We must also have enough disdain for all things outside us, to make us, on due occasion, spit at the stars.
G.K. Chesterton
#93. By cutting ourselves off from the rest of creation, we are left bereft of awe and wonder and therefore of reverence and gratitude. We violate our very beings, and we have nothing but trivia to teach our young.
Matthew Fox
#95. Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.
Owen Glendower
#96. As we contemplate with reverence and awe how our Savior embraces us, comforts us, and heals us, let us commit to become His hands, that others through us may feel His loving embrace.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#97. We need to interrogate "reverence," for idolization can be another way one is objectified and not really taken seriously.
Bell Hooks
#98. Inspiration comes only to those who seek it with humility toward their own achievements and reverence toward the achievements of God.
Walter Russell
#99. I have a deep respect for the fundamentals of television, the traditions of it, even, but I don't have any reverence for it.
Ted Sarandos
#100. Death has become so predictable that I have neither the youthful reverence of it nor the middle-age fear.
Meghna Pant
