Quotes and Sayings About Reverence
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Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
What is the distinguishing mark of an aristocrat?' she asked him suddenly.'Reverence,' he replied.
-- Elizabeth Goudge -
If only your pure and clean mind could touch me, dear Haydn, nobody has a greater reverence for you than I have.
-- Franz Schubert -
Reverence is simply the experience of accepting that all Life is, in and of itself, of value.
-- Gary Zukav -
No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.
-- George Eliot -
Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science. It is as impossible to live without reverence as it is without joy.
-- Henry Beston -
Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it.
-- Henry Beston -
If the Bible is God's word, and we believe it, let us handle it with reverence.
-- John Bartholomew Gough -
I exhort all, who reverence the Word of the Lord, to read it, and diligently imprint it on their memory.
-- John Calvin -
Because of the Incarnation, I salute all remaining matter with reverence.
-- John of Damascus -
Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external.
-- Louise Imogen Guiney -
The more reverence we have for the Word of God, the more joy we shall find in it.
-- Matthew Henry -
One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.
-- Pauline Kael -
If not for reverence, if not for wonder, if not for love, why have we come here?
-- Raffi -
Receive the children in reverence, educate them in love, and send them forth in freedom.
-- Rudolf Steiner -
Reverence to a woman in courtship is less to be dispensed with, as, generally, there is but little of it shown afterwards.
-- Samuel Richardson -
I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
-- Sinclair Lewis -
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.
-- Socrates -
Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments.
-- Thomas Merton -
You may only get this one life – but lived free of submissive reverence – that is still a thing of rampant beauty.
-- Trevor Treharne
