Reverence Quotes

Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.

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.

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

If only your pure and clean mind could touch me, dear Haydn, nobody has a greater reverence for you than I have.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

If you see a philosopher determining all things by means of right reason, him you shall reverence: he is a heavenly being and not of this earth.

Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.

Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments.

The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries.

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.

Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.

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.

Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

The trick with computers I think, is to approach old and new things with the same reverence as you would like your favourite chair and not be seduced by the constant innovation otherwise you never do anything.

Reverence is fatal to literature.

At the beginning, Lincoln was so inexperienced he had reverence for military expertise, not realizing that there wasn't any military expertise, that the most anybody had commanded up to that point had been somebody, some troops in the Mexican War, and it had been years ago.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Right now my mind is on the people who stole our instruments, and, specifically, the person with my guitar, which will no doubt end its days having Green Day songs worked out on it. A better fate was deserved - and while the reverence given to guitars annoys me, I shall miss it.

The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.

Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.

Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity.

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression.

Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.

Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.

My effort has been not only to put the Biblical incident in the original setting... but at the same time give the human touch to convey to my public the reverence and elevation these subjects impart to me.