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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: George Eliot Ayn Rand Francis Bacon Louise Imogen Guiney Franz Schubert Swami Vivekananda Albert Pike Desmond Tutu John of Damascus Francis Chan Thomas Carlyle Pauline Kael Lev Grossman Immanuel Kant Saint Augustine Henry Beston Rudolf Steiner Albert Schweitzer John Calvin Thomas Merton Charles Spurgeon Pythagoras Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Nazr Mohammed Rajneesh Henry David Thoreau Rufus Wainwright Aristotle Martin Firrell James Hunter Sinclair Lewis Charlotte Perkins Gilman Abraham Lincoln
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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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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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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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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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Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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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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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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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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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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We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.
Eric Hoffer

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Nature is the symbol of Spirit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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

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Kira, the highest thing in man is not his god. It's that in him which knows the reverence due a god. And you, Kira, are my highest reverence.
Ayn Rand

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Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science. It is as impossible to live without reverence as it is without joy.
Henry Beston

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The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence.
George Eliot

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What is the distinguishing mark of an aristocrat?' she asked him suddenly.'Reverence,' he replied.
Elizabeth Goudge

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Men reverence one another, not yet God.
Henry David Thoreau