Reverence Quotes - Page 23

• I have no reverence for any book that teaches a doctrine contrary to my reason; no reverence for any book that teaches a doctrine contrary to my heart; and, no matter how old it is, no matter how many have believed it, no matter how many have died on account of it, no matter how many live for it, I have no reverence for that book, and I am glad of it.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Book, Heart, Doctrine

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2354, Library of Alexandria

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• The blog is meant to be a bit of a side chapel - a place to slip into and still and encounter the glory of God - and come away again with a fresh sense that your life, right where you are, is a holy experience - that God dwells with you and in you, and where you are is holy ground, worthy of reverence and celebration and wonder.

  Ann Voskamp

  Holy Ground, Encounters, Sides

  Source: www.churchleaders.com

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• 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

  Good Luck, Upset, Hazards

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• Men reverence one another, not yet God.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men

  1849 A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers,'Sunday'.

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• A reverence for life needs to be developed, in which all things are sacred.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Needs, Sacred

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• "Respecting" means concerning or with reference to. But it also means with respect~ that is "reverence," "good-will," "regard" to. Taking into account this richer meaning, the Establishment Clause, in banning laws that concern religion, especially prohibits those that pay homage to religion.

  John Paul Stevens

  Mean, Law, Atheism

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• Reverence is an ennobling sentiment; it is felt to be degrading only by the vulgar mind, which would escape the sense of its own littleness by elevating itself into an antagonist of what is above it. He that has no pleasure in looking up is not fit so much as to look down. Of such minds are mannerists in Art; in the world, tyrants of all sorts.

  Washington Allston

  Art, Tyrants, Mind

  Washington Allston, Richard Henry Dana (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.168, Scholarly Pub Office Univ of

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• 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

  Respect, Greatness, Men

  Max Beerbohm (2006). “And Even Now”, p.179, 1st World Publishing

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• 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

  Loyalty, Appreciation, Heart

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• Try and travel with the eyes of the spirit wide open, and not too much factual information. To tune in, without reverence, idly -- but with real inward attention. It is to be had for the feeling, that mysterious sense of rapport, of identity with the ground. You can extract the essence of a place once you know how. If you just get as still as a needle you'll be there.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Travel, Real, Eye

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• 'For where two or three are gathered together in My name, there am I in the midst of them' (Mt. 18:20). I reverence even two or three praying together, for in accordance with the Lord's promise He Himself is in the midst of them.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Names, Two

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• It is some fundamental certainty which a noble soul has about itself, something which is not to be sought, is not to be found, and perhaps, also, is not to be lost. The noble soul has reverence for itself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Soul, Noble, Fundamentals

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2017). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, Hellenism & Pessimism – 3 Unbeatable Philosophy Books in One Volume: The Birth of Tragedy”, p.619, e-artnow

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• Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Instinct, Superstitious, Unworthy

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “The Humanness of Women: Theory and Practice of Feminism (Essays and Sketches): Studies and thoughts by the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and deeply respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, known for The Yellow Wallpaper story”, p.86, e-artnow

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• I have a reverence for medicine because I hero-worshiped my father [a former doctor], and because I admire doctors, I admire study, empiricism and rational thought. I don't study, empiricize or think rationally myself - but I admire it in others.

  Hugh Laurie

  Father, Hero, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Hugh Laurie from Dec 11, 2011

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• If we want revivals, we must revive our reverence for the Word of God.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Want, Revival, Word Of God

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 38”, p.145, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• [The small camera] taught me energy and decisiveness and immediacy ... The large camera taught me reverence, patience, and meditation.

  Joel Meyerowitz

  Meditation, Cameras, Energy

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• Whenever anyone utters with reverence the name of Babaji, that devotee attracts an instant spiritual blessing.

  Lahiri Mahasaya

  Spiritual, Blessing, Names

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• 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

  Men, Hands, Heaven

  Novalis (1995). “Novalis and the poets of pessimism: with an English translation by James Thomson ("B.V.") of Hymns to night”

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• There never was a great truth but it was reverenced; never a great institution, nor a great man, that did not, sooner or later, receive the reverence of mankind.

  Theodore Parker

  Greatness, Men, Institutions

  Theodore Parker (1865). “Lessons from the World of Matter and the World of Man”, p.205

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• Let a man use great reverence and manners to himself.

  Pythagoras

  Men, Use, Manners

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• Obey; this may be right; but beware of reverence.... Government is nothing but regulated force; force is its appropriate claim upon your attention. It is the business of individuals to persuade; the tendency of concentrated strength, is only to give consistency and permanence to an influence more compendious than persuasion.

  William Godwin

  Government, Giving, Consistency

  William Godwin (1798). “Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness”, p.230

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• Growing up on a farm taught me a reverence for all forms of life. We were a large and poor farm family, so that meant that we had to kill and eat our animal friends. When you do that you are aware of the sacrifice that someone is making so that you may live. My mother always made sure we were thankful for those precious gifts.

  Roger Fouts

  Mother, Growing Up, Sacrifice

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• I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Have Faith

  "The God-Seeker". Book by Sinclair Lewis. Chapter 59, 1949.

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• In placid hours well-pleased we dream Of many a brave unbodied scheme. But form to lend, pulsed life create, What unlike things must meet and mate: A flame to melt--a wind to freeze; Sad patience--joyous energies; Humility--yet pride and scorn; Instinct and study; love and hate; Audacity--reverence. These must mate, And fuse with Jacob's mystic heart, To wrestle with the angel--Art.

  Herman Melville

  Dream, Art, Hate

  Herman Melville, Robert C. Ryan, Hershel Parker (2009). “Published Poems: The Writings of Herman Melville”, p.280, Northwestern University Press

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• A man's body and his mind, with the utmost reverence to both I speak it, are exactly like a jerkin and a jerkin's lining; rumple the one, you rumple the other.

  Laurence Sterne

  Men, Mind, Body

  Laurence Sterne (1853). “Works ...”, p.109

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