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Receive the children in reverence, educate them in love, and send them forth in freedom.
Rudolf Steiner
Greet the young ones with respect, nurture them with affection, and bid them farewell with autonomy.
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One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.
Pauline Kael
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The more reverence we have for the Word of God, the more joy we shall find in it.
Matthew Henry
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If we want revivals, we must revive our reverence for the Word of God.
Charles Spurgeon
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Love without reverence and enthusiasm is only friendship.
George Sand
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Because of the Incarnation, I salute all remaining matter with reverence.
John of Damascus
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Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.
Socrates
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Above all things, reverence yourself.
Pythagoras
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Whoever gives reverence receives reverence.
Rumi
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If only your pure and clean mind could touch me, dear Haydn, nobody has a greater reverence for you than I have.
Franz Schubert
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Reverence is the sense that there is something larger than the self, larger even than the human, to which one accords respect and awe and assent.
Ursula Goodenough
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What the Bible says is what God has disclosed and we want to approach this sacred text with cognitive reverence.
D. A. Carson
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I love to say that not only is the throne room of God a place of reverence, it's always a place of refuge. So when everything else in life seems to be shifting, or breaking and shaking apart, there's a place that is always stable, safe, and constant. When we draw near to God in worship, and approach His throne, we tap into that. It's a very re-assuring place, where we're reminded that there's a God on His throne, and even when we don't understand everything, we can trust it to Him.
Matt Redman
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Duty is the necessity to act out of reverence for the law.
Immanuel Kant
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God is not greater if you reverence Him, but you are greater if you serve Him.
Saint Augustine
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Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments.
Thomas Merton
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Reverence is simply the experience of accepting that all Life is, in and of itself, of value.
Gary Zukav
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I exhort all, who reverence the Word of the Lord, to read it, and diligently imprint it on their memory.
John Calvin
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If not for reverence, if not for wonder, if not for love, why have we come here?
Raffi
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Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.
Sophocles
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For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.
Francis Bacon
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There is a time when the hoary head of inveterate abuse will neither draw reverence nor obtain protection.
Edmund Burke
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The true eye for talent presupposes the true reverence for it.
Thomas Carlyle
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Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
Aristotle
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Let reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation.
Abraham Lincoln
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Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external.
Louise Imogen Guiney
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God himself, with reverence be it spoken, is not an absolute but a limited monarch, limited by the rule which infinite wisdom prescribes to infinite power.
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
Tennessee Williams
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Reverence for greatness dies out, and is succeeded by base envy of greatness.
Albert Pike
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In general those parents have the most reverence who most deserve it; for he that lives well cannot be despised.
Samuel Johnson
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They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new.
Francis Bacon
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We must approach religion with reverence and with love, and our heart will stand up and say, this is truth, and this is untruth.
Swami Vivekananda
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If you are approaching the music with more reverence than the original guys invested into it, you are effectively doing it a disservice.
James Hunter
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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
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We have the deepest respect and reverence for Islam and all who share the faith of Islam.
Jimmy Carter
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Religious reverence for one's own job, even if the job is worth doing, is a sexual turnoff.
Nancy Kress
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Proper respect to others is the most prudent rule of directing the measure of reverence due to ourselves.
Norm MacDonald
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The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.
Albert Schweitzer
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Let us seek to fathom those things that are fathomable and reserve those things which are unfathomable for reverence in quietude.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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You only become funny when you have a complete reverence for life.
Frederick Lenz
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I have a deep reverence for everything that is alive, a reverence for life itself.
Rajneesh