Reverence Quotes - Page 5

• The greatest reverence is due to a child! If you are contemplating a disgraceful act, despise not your child's tender years.

  Juvenal

  Children, Years, Parent

  Juvenal (1871). “The satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius ...”, p.162

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• The superior man, even when he is not moving, has a feeling of reverence, and while he speaks not, he has the feeling of truthfulness.

  Confucius

  Truth, Moving, Men

  Confucius, Mencius (1861). “The Chinese Classics”, p.296

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• Our reverence for workaholism has produced corporate leaders who believe they don't need sleep, and neither should anyone else.

  Stanley Coren

  Believe, Sleep, Leader

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• See that ye all follow the bishop, even as Jesus Christ does the Father, and the presbytery as ye would the apostles; and reverence the deacons, as being the institution of God. Let no man do anything connected with the Church without the bishop. [] Wherever the bishop shall appear, there let the multitude [of the people] also be; even as, wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church. [] Whatsoever [the bishop] shall approve of, that is also pleasing to God, so that everything that is done may be secure and valid.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Jesus, Father, Men

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• In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence, for he finds it impossible to imagine that he is the first to have thought out the exceedingly delicate threads that connect his perceptions

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Perception, Firsts

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.322, Princeton University Press

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• Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.

  Havelock Ellis

  Sex, Lying, Roots

  Havelock Ellis (2012). “Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty, The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity, Auto-Erotism”, p.11, tredition

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• Proper respect to others is the most prudent rule of directing the measure of reverence due to ourselves.

  Norm MacDonald

  Respect, Prudent, Dues

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• A discipline I have observed is an attitude of love and reverence to people.

  Bessie Head

  Attitude, Discipline, People

  Bessie Head (1990). “A Woman Alone: Autobiographical Writings”, African Writers Series

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• Reverence makes it possible to be whole, though ignorant. It is the wholeness of understanding.

  Wendell Berry

  Respect, Understanding, Ignorant

  Wendell Berry (2011). “Standing by Words”, p.90, Counterpoint Press

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• 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

  Honor, Taoism, Doe

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• Competition of praise inclineth to a reverence of antiquity. For men contend with the living, not with the dead.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Competition, Praise

  Thomas Hobbes (2002). “Leviathan”, p.76, Broadview Press

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• Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.

  Owain Glyndwr

  Cousin, Fear, Long

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• The idea of vegetarianism is of immense value; it is based on great reverence for life.

  Rajneesh

  Vegetarianism, Ideas, Reverence For Life

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• Nothing has a greater tendency to lessen the reverence which mankind ought to have for the Supreme Being, than a careless repetition of his name upon every trifling occasion . . . . To prevent this profanation, such passages are selected from scripture, as contain some important precepts of morality and religion, in which that sacred name is seldom mentioned. Let sacred things be appropriated to sacred purposes.

  Noah Webster

  Names, Religion, Important

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• Until we consider animal life to be worthy of the consideration and reverence we bestow upon old books and pictures and historic monuments, there will always be the animal refugee living a precarious life on the edge of extermination, dependent for existence on the charity of a few human beings.

  Gerald Durrell

  Life, Book, Science

  Gerald Durrell (1970). “Encounters with Animals”

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• 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

  Children, Growing Up, Couple

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• For spiritual companions I have had the many artists who have relied on nature to help shape their imagination. And their most elaborate equipment was a deep reverence for the world through which they passed. Photographers share something with these artists. We seek only to see and to describe with our own voices, and, though we are seldom heard as soloists, we cannot photograph the world in any other way.

  Sam Abell

  Photography, Spiritual, Artist

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• Let’s think of reverence as awe, as presence in and openness to the world…Try walking around with a child who’s going, ‘Wow, wow! Look at that dirty dog! Look at that burned-down house! Look at that red sky!’ And the child points, and you look, and you see, and you start going, ‘Wow! Look at that huge crazy hedge! Look at that teeny little baby! Look at the scary dark cloud!’ I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world – present and in awe.

  Anne Lamott

  Dog, Baby, Children

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• I guess I was raised in a household with a lot of reverence for the physical sanctity of books. You didn't destroy books.

  Lev Grossman

  Book, Sanctity, Raised

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• There are very few real teachers. Teaching is not a job; it is a vocation. To be a great one many qualities must be combined: love of truth, knowledge, reverence, loving concern for one's students, clarity and patience.

  Alice von Hildebrand

  Faith, Teacher, Jobs

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• The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Envy, Competition, Ancient

  'Leviathan' (1651) 'A Review and Conclusion'

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• What I really believe is the only hopeful relation between our life and the whole of life is one of reverence and respect and of feeling at one with it. The other attitude which is the one our society is based on is devastating and it is killing the earth and it is killing us too.

  W. S. Merwin

  Attitude, Believe, Hopeful

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