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Reverence invites Revelation -- Boyd K. Packer
Reverence is fatal to literature. -- E. M. Forster
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality. -- Albert Schweitzer
Above all things, reverence yourself. -- Pythagoras
Reverence the gods, and help men. Short is life. -- Marcus Aurelius
Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal. -- Albert Schweitzer
I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence. -- Sinclair Lewis
Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. -- Plato
Reverence for greatness dies out, and is succeeded by base envy of greatness. -- Albert Pike
The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality. -- Albert Schweitzer
Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die. -- Sophocles
Reverence makes it possible to be whole, though ignorant. It is the wholeness of understanding. -- Wendell Berry
Reverence, humility, contentment, gratitude and hearing the good Dhamma, this is the best good luck. -- Gautama Buddha
The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesnt enter into it. -- Jill Lepore
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence. -- Henry David Thoreau
Reverence: the spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man. -- Ambrose
The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it. -- Jill Lepore
What is the distinguishing mark of an aristocrat?' she asked him suddenly.'Reverence,' he replied. -- Elizabeth Goudge
Reverence is simply the experience of accepting that all Life is, in and of itself, of value. -- Gary Zukav
The nation can prosper and be happy only when education develops in an atmosphere of Truth, Love and Reverence. -- Sai Baba
The ninth gift is Reverence. May you appreciate the wonder that you are and the miracle of all creation. -- Charlene Costanzo
Your Reverence, I do not hate any man in this world enough to inflict the results of my prayers upon him. -- Lois McMaster Bujold
Esteem incites friendship, but not love; the former is the twin brother of Reverence; the latter is the child of Equality. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe. -- Albert Schweitzer
Reverence for life, veneratio vitÃ¦, is the most direct and at the same time the profoundest achievement of my will-to-live. -- Albert Schweitzer
Reverence to a woman in courtship is less to be dispensed with, as, generally, there is but little of it shown afterwards. -- Samuel Richardson
Reverence is an attitude of honoring life. Reverence automatically brings forth patience. Reverence permits non-judgemental justice. Reverence is a perception of the soul. -- Gary Zukav
Reverence awakens in the soul a sympathetic power through which we attract qualities in the beings around us, which would otherwise remain concealed. -- Rudolf Steiner
Reverence, enthusiasm, and a sense of guardianship, these three are actually the panacea, the magical remedy, in the soul of the educator and teacher. -- Rudolf Steiner
Reverence is an attitude of honoring Life. You do not have to be authentically powered to be gentle with Life or to love Life. -- Gary Zukav
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world. -- John Milton
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
Late upon the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset . . . there flashed upon my mind, unforseen and unsought, the phrase 'Reverence for Life'. -- Albert Schweitzer
Reverence is the sense that there is something larger than the self, larger even than the human, to which one accords respect and awe and assent. -- Ursula Goodenough
To trifle with Scripture is to deprive yourself of its aid. Reverence it, and look up to God with devout gratitude for having given it to you. -- Charles Spurgeon
Reverence for the Supreme Being, based upon His supposed resemblance to man. The pig is taught by sermons and epistles / To think the God of Swine has snout and bristles. -- Ambrose Bierce
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
Of all things, none does not revere the Way and honor virtue. Reverence of the Way and honoring virtue were not demanded of them, but it is in their nature. -- Laozi
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. -- John Ruskin
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. -- Margaret Sanger
The process of shaping the child, shapes also the mother herself. Reverence for her sacred burden calls her to all that is pure and good, that she may teach primarily by her own humble, daily example. -- Elisabeth Elliot
Reverence is a good thing, and part of its value is that the more we revere a man, the more sharply are we struck by anything in him (and there is always much) that is incongruous with his greatness. -- Max Beerbohm
Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from it learn the all. -- Margaret Fuller
Reverence for life is more than solicitude or sensitivity for life. It is a sense of the whole, a capacity for inspired response, a respect for the intricate universe of individual life. It is the supreme awareness of awareness itself. -- Norman Cousins
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
Everyone has the best of feelings towards mankind in general, but not towards the individual man. We'll kill men, but we want to save mankind. And that isn't right, your Reverence. The world will be an evil place as long as people don't believe in other people. -- Karel Capek
Adore God. Reverence and cherish your parents. Love your neighbor as yourself, and your country more than yourself. Be just. Be true. Murmur not at the ways of Providence. So shall the life into which you have entered be the portal to one of eternal and ineffable bliss. -- Thomas Jefferson
Reverence is an emotion that we can nurture in our very young children, respect is an attitude that we instill in our children as they become school-agers, and responsibility is an act that we inspire in our children as they grow through the middle years and become adolescents. -- Zoe Weil
Whoever gives reverence receives reverence -- Rumi
Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life. -- Albert Schweitzer
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies. -- John Milton
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Gratitude bestows reverence.....changing forever how we experience life and the world. -- John Milton
When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one's own tradition with reverence for different traditions. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence. -- George Eliot
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life. -- Albert Schweitzer
Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us? -- William O. Douglas
By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive. -- Albert Schweitzer
Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power to forgive. -- Albert Schweitzer
Humility, a sense of reverence before the sons of heaven of all the prizes that a mortal man might win, these, I say, are wisest; these are best. -- Euripides
Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live unreflectively and begins to devote himself to his life with reverence in order to raise it to its true value. To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will. -- Albert Schweitzer
Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility. -- Dale Dauten
Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions. -- Bodhidharma
Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself. -- Pythagoras
Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
I come from a family of teachers, and I believe ideas matter; the good ones deserve reverence, and the bad ones, defiance. -- Nancy Gibbs
Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence. -- Robert Andrews Millikan
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
There is much to justify Turkey's reverence for Ataturk. He is the force that allowed Turkey to rise from the ashes of defeat and emerge as a vibrant new nation. -- Stephen Kinzer
You must all follow the lead of the bishop, as Jesus Christ followed that of the Father; follow the presbytery as you would the Apostles; reverence the deacons as you would God's commandment. -- Ignatius of Antioch
Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague. -- Norman Douglas
Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow. -- David Seabury
Out of Africa,' Dinesen's second book, is a love story, though not the one portrayed by Streep and Redford in the film. The memoir is about Dinesen's love of East Africa - the cultures, the landscapes, the animals. The feeling that saturates the book is reverence. -- Joanna Scott
Apart from being celebrities, there's a huge amount of respect associated with being cricketers and a certain amount of reverence and honour associated with representing India. In people's eyes, apart from other celebrities in India, I think for sportsmen in India there's a certain amount of regard. -- Rahul Dravid
The requirements for our evolution have changed. Survival is no longer sufficient. Our evolution now requires us to develop spiritually - to become emotionally aware and make responsible choices. It requires us to align ourselves with the values of the soul - harmony, cooperation, sharing, and reverence for life. -- Gary Zukav
Grateful daughters of God guard their bodies carefully, for they know they are the wellsprings of life, and they reverence life. They don't uncover their bodies to find favor with the world. They walk in modesty to be in favor with their Father In Heaven. They know he loves them dearly. -- Margaret D. Nadauld
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. -- Jonny Greenwood
Nature best teaches how to pray, and how to reverence all the gifts the Almighty has given us. She is like a vast outspread handkerchief, embroidered with God's eternal name, on which we may dry alike our tears of sorrow and of joy; she turns weeping into ecstasy, and fills our hearts with speechless, quiet reverence and resignation. -- Robert Schumann
Here's the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family, which is why a child born today of unmarried parents in Sweden has a better chance of growing up in a house with both of his parents than a child born to a married couple in America. Here we revere the couple, there they revere the family. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
It's like a jar of salad dressing sitting on a shelf... most of the seasoning settles to the bottom of the bottle. But when you shake that bottle up, all the ingredients mix together and then the dressing can add flavor to a salad. In the same way, we can stir ourselves up and regain the reverence, respect and awe we once had for the Lord. -- Joyce Meyer
Pray with reverence, not half-heartedness. -- Francis Chan
Happiness is reverence for all life. -- Goswami Kriyananda
How can the unknown merit reverence? -- Harold Pinter
Men reverence one another, not yet God. -- Henry David Thoreau
The other side of reverence is loathing. -- Martin Firrell
I bow in reverence to the white cloud. -- Li Bai
The soul of the Christian religion is reverence. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love without reverence and enthusiasm is only friendship. -- George Sand
Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence. -- Aristotle
Kill reverence and you've killed the hero in man. -- Ayn Rand
Eternal life can mean utter reverence for life itself. -- Seamus Heaney
There are men whose presence infuses trust and reverence. -- George Eliot
Let a man use great reverence and manners to himself. -- Pythagoras
Because of the Incarnation, I salute all remaining matter with reverence. -- John of Damascus
Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away. -- Propertius
Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away. -- Propertius
The true eye for talent presupposes the true reverence for it. -- Thomas Carlyle
Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
What we call love is in its essence reverence for life. -- Albert Schweitzer
Let reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation. -- Abraham Lincoln
Duty is the necessity to act out of reverence for the law. -- Immanuel Kant
Having pets in the house helps everyone have a reverence for life. -- Bernie Siegel
You only become funny when you have a complete reverence for life. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence. -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Children, we must cultivate reverence towards all great masters, monks and gurus. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
He who loves goodness harbors angels, reveres reverence, and lives with God. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments. -- Thomas Merton
Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment. -- William Sloane Coffin
...the moving spirit of militancy is deep and abiding reverence for human life. -- Emmeline Pankhurst
In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence. -- Albert Einstein
Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it. -- Henry Beston
A reverence for life needs to be developed, in which all things are sacred. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Do not ever disturb prelude music for others, for reverence is essential to revelation -- Boyd K. Packer
Respect is reverence out of love, Fear is reverence out of hate.Choose Wisely -- Abhishek Shukla
The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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