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• It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Doe, Pay, Intellect

  "Due Reverence: Antiques in the Possession of the American Philosophical Society". Book by Murphy D. Smith (p. 3), 1992.

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• I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.

  John Adams

  4th Of July, Patriotic, Illumination

  John Adams (2004). “The Portable John Adams”, p.214, Penguin

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• Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments.

  Thomas Merton

  Advertising, Treats, Seriousness

  Thomas Merton (2002). “Seeds”

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• 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

  Fear, History, Bows

  "Colten v. Kentucky, 407 U.S. 104". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. June 12, 1972.

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• Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it.

  Henry Beston

  Night, Banishment, Vulgar

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• When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Love, Experience, Exhausted

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• If we wish ourselves to be high, we should treat that which is over us as high.

  Anthony Trollope

  Wish, Should, Treats

  Anthony Trollope (2008). “Thackeray”, p.48, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.

  Roger Tory Peterson

  Life, Science, Doom And Gloom

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• Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life and that to destroy, harm, or to hinder life is evil. Affirmation of the world - that is affirmation of the will to live, which appears in phenomenal forms all around me - is only possible for me in that I give myself out for other life.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Life, Evil, Giving

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• Woman must not accept; she must challenge.

  Margaret Sanger

  Strong Women, Empowering, Challenges

  Margaret Sanger (2005). “Woman and the New Race”, p.99, Cosimo, Inc.

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• 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

  Life, Spiritual, Men

  Albert Schweitzer (2014). “Reverence for Life: The Ethics of Albert Schweitzer for the Twenty-First Century”, p.49, Open Road Media

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• Receive the children in reverence, educate them in love, and send them forth in freedom.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Children, Educate

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• Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between church and State.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Atheist, Wall

  Reply to Nehemiah Dodge, Ephraim Robbins, and Stephen S. Nelson (committee of the Danbury, Conn., Baptist Association), 1 Jan. 1802

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• The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Life, Men, Thinking

  Albert Schweitzer (2015). “The Light Within Us”, p.31, Open Road Media

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• Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

  Samuel Johnson

  Love, Friendship, Men

  Samuel Johnson (2014). “The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume II: 1773-1776”, p.267, Princeton University Press

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• Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Motherhood, Principles, Fundamentals

  Albert Schweitzer, Charles Rhind Joy (1947). “Albert Schweitzer: An Anthology”, Boston : Beacon Press

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• We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.

  Mark Twain

  People, Religion, Sacred Things

  Mark Twain (2015). “Following the Equator: "A Journey Around the World"”, p.544, eKitap Projesi

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• The man who builds a factory, builds a temple.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Men, Temples, He Man

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• A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later such a religion will emerge.

  Carl Sagan

  Science, Religion, Stressed

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.71, Ballantine Books

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• Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him.

  John Ruskin

  Men, Anticipation, True Happiness

  John Ruskin (1907). “The Religion of Ruskin: The Life and Works of John Ruskin; a Biographical and Anthological Study”

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• Worship is a posture of life that takes as its primary purpose the understanding of what it really means to love and revere God.

  Ravi Zacharias

  God, Religious, Mean

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Apr 07, 2014

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• People only have true understanding when they look at everything from God's perspective. Authentic wisdom begins when we understand that God is to be the object of our devotion, our adoration, and our reverence.

  R. C. Sproul

  People, Perspective, Understanding

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• The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures.

  Stewart Udall

  Brother, Native American, Son

  Stewart L. Udall (1988). “The quiet crisis and the next generation”, Gibbs Smith

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• Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science. It is as impossible to live without reverence as it is without joy.

  Henry Beston

  Joy, Impossible, Comprehension

  Henry Beston (1956). “The Outermost House”

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• There is a sixth sense, the natural religious sense, the sense of wonder.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Religious, Wonder, Natural

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