Reverence Quotes - Page 7

• God has such a deep reverence for our freedom that he'd rather let us freely go to Hell than be compelled to go to Heaven.

  Desmond Tutu

  Heaven, Hell, Compelled

  Beyers Naudé memorial lecture, August 15, 2003.

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• The effect of our knowledge rather ought to be, first, to teach us reverence and fear; and, secondly, to induce us, under its guidance and teaching, to ask every good thing from [God], and, when it is received, ascribe it to him. For how can the idea of God enter your mind without instantly giving rise to the thought, that since you are his workmanship, you are bound, by the very law of creation, to submit to his authority?-\-\that your life is due to him?-\-\that whatever you do ought to have reference to him.

  John Calvin

  Teaching, Law, Ideas

  John Calvin “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion, Books First and Second”, Jazzybee Verlag

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• We who are privileged to be in these chambers today can view the challenges we face as opportunities, not as reasons for despair. We can do this only if we blend our independent spirits in terms of reverence for the life and respect for nature. Each of you might suggest different words, but our goal certainly is the same: a better Oregon.

  Tom McCall

  Independent, Opportunity, Views

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• Reverence the gods, and help men. Short is life.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Helping, Help Me

  Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations”, p.40, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• I would sooner perish for ever than stoop down before a Being who may have power to crush me, but whom my heart forbids me to reverence.

  James Anthony Froude

  Crush, Heart, May

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The nemesis of faith”, p.13

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• It is one thing to fear God as threatening, with a holy reverence, and another to be afraid of the evil threatened.

  John Owen

  Evil, Threatening, Holy

  John Owen (1826). “The Works of John Owen”, p.50

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• Humility, a sense of reverence before the sons of heaven - of all the prizes that a mortal man might win, these, I say, are wisest; these are best.

  Euripides

  Humility, Son, Men

  "The Bacchae". Play by Euripides, 405 BCE.

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• Today, we see the reemergence of reverence for the Divine Mother that we
  knew in past ages.

  Elizabeth Clare Prophet

  Mother, Past, Age

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• The scientific spirit, the contempt of tradition, the lack of discipline and the exaltation of the individual have very nearly made an end of art. It can only be restored by the love of beauty, the reverence for tradition, the submission to discipline and the rigor of self-control.

  Kenyon Cox

  Art, Self, Discipline

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• If the Bible is God's word, and we believe it, let us handle it with reverence.

  John Bartholomew Gough

  Believe, Handle, Ifs

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert (p. 37), 1895.

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• The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Spiritual, Stronger, Reverence For Life

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

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• The true Christians are the true citizens, lofty of purpose, resolute in endeavor, ready for a hero's deeds, but never looking down on their task because it is cast in the day of small things; scornful of baseness, awake to their own duties as well as to their rights, following the higher law with reverence, and in this world doing all that in their power lies, so that when death comes they may feel that humanity is in some degree better because they lived.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Christian, Lying, Hero

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• There is no surer mark of a low and unregenerate nature than this tendency of power to loudness and wantonness instead of quietness and reverence. To souls baptized in Christian nobleness the largest sphere of command is but a wider empire of obedience, calling them, not to escape from holy rule, but to its full impersonation.

  James Martineau

  Christian, Power, Baptized In

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 456), 1895.

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• True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Humility, Suffering And Death, Religion

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• Nor do we accept, as genuine the person not characterized by this blushing bashfulness, this youthfulness of heart, this sensibility to the sentiment of suavity and self-respect. Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. None are truly great without this ornament.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Heart, Self, Mind

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.72

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• Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Self, Mind, Modesty

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.72

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• There is a grand fearlessness in faith. He who in his heart of hearts reverences the good, the true, the holy--that is, reverences God--does not tremble at the apparent success of attacks upon the outworks of faith. They may shake those who rest on those outworks--they do not move him whose soul reposes on the truth itself. He needs no prop or crutches to support his faith. Founded on a Rock, Faith can afford to gaze undismayed at the approaches of Infidelity.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Faith, Moving, Heart

  Frederick William Robertson (1861). “Sermons ...”, p.192

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• We agreed that great men and women should be forced to live as long as possible. The reverence they enjoyed was a life sentence, which they could neither revoke nor modify.

  Maya Angelou

  Hero, Men, Long

  Maya Angelou (1987). “All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes”, Vintage

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• If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic.

  Toni Morrison

  Writing, Thinking, Discovery

  Toni Morrison, Carolyn C. Denard (2008). “What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction”, p.71, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Success, Men, Virtue

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• It was the maxim, I think, of Alphonsus of Aragon, that dead counsellors are safest. The grave puts an end to flattery and artifice, and the information we receive from books is pure from interest, fear, and ambition. Dead counsellors are likewise most instructive, because they are heard with patience and with reverence.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Ambition, Thinking

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). “The Rambler”, p.410

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• Imprint deep upon your minds the principles of piety towards God, and a reverence and fear of His holy name. The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom and its consummation is everlasting felicity. Possess yourselves of just and elevated notions of the Divine character, attributes, and administration, and of the end and dignity of your own immortal nature as it stands related to Him.

  William Samuel Johnson

  Character, Names, Mind

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• If we may credit certain hints contained in the lives of the saints, love raises the spirit above the sphere of reverence and worship into one of laughter and dalliance: a sphere in which the soul says: 'Shall I, a gnat which dances in Thy ray, Dare to be reverent?'

  Coventry Patmore

  Laughter, Gnats, Soul

  Coventry Patmore (2016). “The Root, the Rod and the Flower”, p.13, Lulu Press, Inc

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• In a musical sense, it seemed like all the good intentions had gone awry, very quickly. I mean, we got back from America and Blur had made The Great Escape, which I thought was a really, truly awful album - so cheesy, like a parody of Parklife, but without the balls or the intellect. And Oasis were enormous and I always found them incredibly dreary. There was this uncritical reverence surrounding the whole thing

  Justine Frischmann

  Mean, Oasis, America

  "Elastica Limits". Interview with Andrew Smith, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2002.

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• The true eye for talent presupposes the true reverence for it.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Eye, Talent

  Thomas Carlyle (1858). “Chartism: Past and Present. By Thomas Carlyle”, p.94

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