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Reverence Quotes

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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.
Authors on Reverence Quotes: Francis Bacon George Eliot Ayn Rand Eric Hoffer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Harold Pinter Tennessee Williams Edmund Burke E. M. Forster Frederick Lenz Raffi Boyd K. Packer Matthew Henry Goswami Kriyananda Sophocles Elizabeth Goudge John Bartholomew Gough Samuel Johnson Ursula Goodenough D. A. Carson Mark Lawson Nancy Kress Albert Pike Louise Imogen Guiney Franz Schubert Swami Vivekananda Desmond Tutu John of Damascus Francis Chan Thomas Carlyle Saint Augustine Pauline Kael Lev Grossman
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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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Happiness is reverence for all life.
Goswami Kriyananda

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How can the unknown merit reverence?
Harold Pinter

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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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Reverence is fatal to literature.
E. M. Forster

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

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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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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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Reverence invites Revelation
Boyd K. Packer

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

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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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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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Pray with reverence, not half-heartedness.
Francis Chan

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

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He who honestly instructs reverences God.
Nazr Mohammed

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

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

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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.
Ayn Rand

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

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We have had, alas, and still have, the doubtful habit of reverence. Above all, we respect things as they are.
Cynthia Ozick

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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
Sinclair Lewis

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There are men whose presence infuses trust and reverence.
George Eliot

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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