Reverence Quotes - Page 24

• A nature wise With finding in itself the types of all, With watching from the dim verge of the time What things to be are visible in the gleams Thrown forward on them from the luminous past, Wise with the history of its own frail heart, With reverence and sorrow, and with love, Broad as the world, for freedom and for man.

  James Russell Lowell

  Wise, Heart, Character

  James Russell Lowell (1857). “Miscellaneous poems. Memorial verses. Sonnets. I-XXVII. L'Envoi. Vision of Sir Launfal”, p.81

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• With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Passion, Eye, Purpose

  Edgar Allan Poe (2015). “Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales”, p.18, Library of America

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• That which concerns the mystery of the King's power is not lawful to be disputed; for that is to wade into the weakness of Princes, and to take away the mystical reverence that belongs unto them that sit in the throne of God.

  King James I

  Kings, Weakness, Thrones

  Speech in the Star Chamber, June 1616.

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• Having still in my recollection so many excellent men, to whose grandfathers, upon the same spots, my grandfather had yielded cheerful obedience and reverence, it is not without sincere sorrow that I have beheld many of the sons of these men driven from their fathers' mansions, or holding them as little better than tenants or stewards, while the swarms of Placemen, Pensioners, Contractors, and Nabobs... have usurped a large part of the soil.

  William Cobbett

  Father, Son, Men

  Political Register, December 21, 1816.

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• How can the unknown merit reverence?

  Harold Pinter

  Merit

  Harold Pinter (1967). “The Homecoming”, p.52, Grove Press

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• A disciple, in his reverence for the Master, looked upon him as God incarnate. "Tell me, O Master," he said, "why you have come into this world." "To teach fools like you to stop wasting their time worshiping Masters.

  Anthony de Mello

  World, Fool, Like You

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• Once the Western mind was disconnected from its sense of divine responsibility and genuine reverence towards nature, all hell broke loose. And that’s where we are now.

  Marianne Williamson

  Responsibility, Mind, Hell

  "Marianne Williamson on Consciousness, Women and Politics". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2012.

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• God has given you your child, that the sight of him, from time to time, might remind you of His goodness, and induce you to praise Him with filial reverence.

  Christian Scriver

  Children, Sight, Might

  Christian Scriver (1860). “Gotthold's Emblems: Or, Invisible Things Understood by Things that are Made”, p.259

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• The mind unlearned in reverence, says Bonaventure (1221-1274), is in danger of becoming so captivated by the spectacle of beings as to be altogether forgetful of being in itself; and our mechanistic approach to the world is nothing but ontological obliviousness translated into a living tradition.

  David Bentley

  Mind, Becoming, World

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• What I do know is that Charlie Hebdo cartoonists have been converted into the closest thing the West has to religious-like martyrs in the war against radical Islam, which means that anything short of pure reverence for them generates tribal rage and vilification.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Religious, War, Mean

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• 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

  Inspirational, Attitude, Love Life

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Jun 27, 2013

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• You only become funny when you have a complete reverence for life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Compassion, Reverence For Life

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• We must control the tendencies within our being that are destructive, when we want to slam somebody else, hurt them, injure them, or push them out of the way. A reverence for life needs to be developed, in which all things are sacred.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Hurt, Buddhism

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• Centuries of secularism have failed to transform eating into something strictly utilitarian. Food is still treated with reverence...To eat is still something more than to maintain bodily functions. People may not understand what that 'something more' is, but they nonetheless desire to celebrate it. They are still hungry and thirsty for sacramental life.

  Alexander Schmemann

  People, Desire, May

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• When a man has reverence for life, he will never do anything to harm, hinder or destroy life. Instead he bends every effort to help life to fulfill its highest destiny. He strives to maintain, enhance and assist life to make the most of itself.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Destiny, Effort, Reverence For Life

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• Yet, for I know thou art religious
  And hast a thing within thee called conscience,
  With twenty popish tricks and ceremonies
  Which I have seen thee careful to observe,
  Therefore I urge thy oath; for that I know
  An idiot holds his bauble for a god
  And keeps the oath which by that god he swears,
  To that I'll urge him: therefore thou shalt vow
  By that same god, what god soe'er it be,
  That thou adorest and hast in reverence,
  To save my boy, to nourish and bring him up,
  Or else I will discover naught to thee.

  William Shakespeare

  Religious, Art, Boys

  William Shakespeare (1824). “The Dramatic Works, Printed from the Text of Samuel Johnson, George Steevens and Isaac Reed”, p.697

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

  Sophocles

  Doe, Mortals, Dies

  "The Beginning of All Wisdom: Timeless Advice from the Ancient Greeks". Book by Steven Stavropoulos, p. 69, December 15, 2008.

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• Life in its infinite forms exists as one organic unity. We are part of it: the part should feel reverence for the whole. That is the idea of vegetarianism. It simply means: don't destroy life. It simply means: life is God - avoid destroying it, otherwise you will be destroying the very ecology.

  Rajneesh

  Mean, Vegetarianism, Ideas

  Rajneesh (Bhagwan Shree), Swami Krishna Prem (1984). “From R to Z”

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• Vegetarianism should not be anything moral or religious. It is a question of aesthetics: one's sensitivity, one's respect, one's reverence for life.

  Rajneesh

  Religious, Vegetarianism, Reverence For Life

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• I have a feeling of reverence about my father being in his 80s - a feeling that I want to whisper, take soft steps, not intrude too much. He's like a stately old cathedral to me now.

  Patti Davis

  Father, Feelings, Want

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• 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

  Men, Thinking, Pigs

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.164, 谷月社

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• To properly prepare to receive personal revelation, we must repent, ask through prayer, be obedient, search the scriptures, fast, think pure thoughts, and develop a spirit of reverence.

  L. Lionel Kendrick

  Prayer, Thinking, Scripture

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• Playing Christ, I began to feel shut away from the world. A newspaper became one of my biggest luxuries. I noticed that some of my close friends began treating me with reverence.

  Max von Sydow

  Friends, Luxury, World

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Allow me now to return to the cottagers, whose story excited in me such various feelings of indignation, delight, and wonder, but which all terminated in additional love and reverence for my protectors (for so I loved, in an innocent, half painful self-deceit, to call them).

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Love, Self, Feelings

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1974). “Frankenstein, Or the Modern Prometheus: The 1818 Text”, p.117, University of Chicago Press

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• Good design is a great combination of common sense, unusual imagination, clarity of purpose–with a prerequisite knowledge of structure, values, color, aesthetic insight and a deep reverence for the love of life.

  Millard Sheets

  Love Life, Clarity Of Purpose, Color

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