Reverence Quotes

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

One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.

The more reverence we have for the Word of God, the more joy we shall find in it.

If we want revivals, we must revive our reverence for the Word of God.

Love without reverence and enthusiasm is only friendship.

Because of the Incarnation, I salute all remaining matter with reverence.

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.

Above all things, reverence yourself.

Whoever gives reverence receives reverence.

If only your pure and clean mind could touch me, dear Haydn, nobody has a greater reverence for you than I have.

Happiness is reverence for all life.

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.

How can the unknown merit reverence?

Reverence is fatal to literature.

What the Bible says is what God has disclosed and we want to approach this sacred text with cognitive reverence.

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.

Duty is the necessity to act out of reverence for the law.

God is not greater if you reverence Him, but you are greater if you serve Him.

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

Reverence is simply the experience of accepting that all Life is, in and of itself, of value.

I exhort all, who reverence the Word of the Lord, to read it, and diligently imprint it on their memory.

For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.

Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence.

If not for reverence, if not for wonder, if not for love, why have we come here?

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

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

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

Let reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation.

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.

Reverence invites Revelation

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!

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.

There is a time when the hoary head of inveterate abuse will neither draw reverence nor obtain protection.

We must approach religion with reverence and with love, and our heart will stand up and say, this is truth, and this is untruth.

Reverence for greatness dies out, and is succeeded by base envy of greatness.

In general those parents have the most reverence who most deserve it; for he that lives well cannot be despised.

They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new.

Religious reverence for one's own job, even if the job is worth doing, is a sexual turnoff.

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

The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.

Let us seek to fathom those things that are fathomable and reserve those things which are unfathomable for reverence in quietude.

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

Pray with reverence, not half-heartedness.

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

I have a deep reverence for everything that is alive, a reverence for life itself.

He who honestly instructs reverences God.

One of the things which separates British and American culture is the reverence for the flag in American culture.

I'll always be a boulevardier. I have an extreme reverence and romantic longing for all that is decrepit and fatalistic.

It's a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very own.

There are men whose presence infuses trust and reverence.