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An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind. -- John Ruskin
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age. -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
I'm reverent toward my sources. History is a team sport, and references are how you support your teammates. -- Rick Perlstein
My friend, the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, was murdered in 2004 for having been insufficiently reverent toward Islam. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age. -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Let us therefore be of a reverent spirit, and fear the long-suffering of God, that it tend not to our condemnation. -- Ignatius of Antioch
I am a fan of today's sound as long as we don't get too slick, and yet I am very reverent of my roots. -- Wynonna Judd
Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue. -- Francis Bacon
To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons. -- Confucius
To different minds, poetry may present different phases. To me, the reverent faith of the people I lived among, and their faithful everyday living, was poetry; blossoms and trees and blue shies were poetry. God himself was poetry. -- Lucy Larcom
I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics. -- Albert Schweitzer
To be reverent is not just to be quiet. It involves an awareness of what is taking place. It involves a divine desire to learn and to be receptive to the promptings of the Spirit. It involves a striving to seek added light and knowledge. -- L. Lionel Kendrick
I'm reverent from a distance. -- Janet Morris
True art is reverent imitation of God. -- Tryon Edwards
Nothing makes a man more reverent than a library. -- Winston Churchill
An unimaginative person can neither be reverent nor kind. -- John Ruskin
Leaning on Him, make with reverent meekness His own thy will. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
I bring you with reverent hands The books of my numberless dreams. -- William Butler Yeats
We need radical curiosity and reverent pranks, voracious listening and ferocious thanks. -- Rob Brezsny
He was too perplexed to please the conventional and too reverent. to please the infidels. -- Elton Trueblood
It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them. -- Tacitus
The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold. -- Oswald Chambers
The interpretation that makes you ardent and hopeful and active and reverent is the true one. -- Rumi
Stand in that reverent attitude to the whole universe, and then will come perfect non attachment. -- Swami Vivekananda
If everybody was so reverent of the institute of marriage, how did all the adultery get committed? -- ZoÃ« Heller
Sex is not some sort of pristine, reverent ritual. You want reverent and pristine, go to church. -- Cynthia Heimel
A man is first reverent about himself, and self-respect is the first stage in reverence for all things. -- Otto Weininger
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age. -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Great souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is over them: only small mean souls are otherwise. -- Thomas Carlyle
Praying is simple. Use the words that you know. You don't have to be eloquent, just sincere and reverent. -- Oleta Adams
Generally, elders are among the more reverent members of the Church, but there is no law prescribing their age. -- William Brewster
When a man makes a reverent face before a face that is no face - that is idol worship! -- Menachem Mendel of Kotzk
It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright. -- Murray Rothbard
There is no room in the universe for the least contempt or pride; but only for a gentle and a reverent heart. -- James Martineau
Thanksgiving is nothing if not a glad and reverent lifting of the heart to God in honor and praise for His goodness. -- J.R. Miller
Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day. -- Romain Rolland
If you are lucky and reverent, and hush for a moment the doubts in your head, sometimes God will whisper in your ear. -- John Graves
Song falls silent, music is dumb, But the air burns with their fragrance, And white winter, on its knees, Observes everything with reverent attention. -- Anna Akhmatova
What better can we do than prostrate fall before Him reverent, and there confess humbly our faults, and pardon beg with tears watering the ground? -- John Milton
One may not doubt that, somehow Good Shall come of Water and of Mud; And sure, the reverent eye must see A purpose in Liquidity. -- Rupert Brooke
I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a bigger body, more awful, more reverent and more free than he has had before. -- Gerald Stanley Lee
I honestly think that in order to be a writer you have to learn to be reverent. If not, why are you writing? Why are you here? -- Anne Lamott
Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth. Real devotion is rooted in an awed and reverent gratitude, but one that is lucid, grounded, and intelligent. -- Sogyal Rinpoche
Take in everything before you and let your eyes be drenched with beauty, and as you love beauty in a reverent way it becomes a sacrament to you. -- Flower A. Newhouse
On entering a temple we assume all signs of reverence. How much more reverent then should we be before the heavenly bodies, the stars, the very nature of God! -- Seneca the Younger
Ye come and go incessant; we remain Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past; Be reverent, ye who flit and are forgot, Of faith so nobly realized as this. -- James Russell Lowell
Not in vain is Ireland pouring itself all over the earth. ... The Irish, with their glowing hearts and reverent credulity, are needed in this cold age of intellect and skepticism. -- Lydia M. Child
We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter. -- Mark Twain
The book smelled dusty and old but also carried a sweet tang, a hint of something inviting. She opened to the first page and started to read, pronouncing the words in a reverent whisper. -- Shannon Hale
The more deeply you understand other people, the more you will appreciate them, the more reverent you will feel about them. To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground. -- Stephen Covey

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