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Nature is the symbol of Spirit. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Your Reverence, I do not hate any man in this world enough to inflict the results of my prayers upon him. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us? — William O. Douglas

When we develop reverence for food and the miracle of transformation inherent in it, just the simple act of eating creates a ritual of celebration. — Deepak Chopra

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

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive. — Albert Schweitzer

Respect, reverence, self-esteem
Are my basic requisites
I refuse to be a competitor
Who struggles for personal rights — Balroop Singh

Instinct and study, love and hate;
Audacity-reverence. These must mate,
And fuse with Jacob's heart,
To wrestle with the angel
Art. — Herman Melville

Surely we may with reverence say that, in a true and deep sense, God Himself is the answer to prayer. — Caroline Emelia Stephen

That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth. — Paul Tsongas

Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe. — Albert Schweitzer

I bow in reverence to the white cloud. — Li Bai

He who honestly instructs reverences God. — Nazr Mohammed

Peace is based on respect for life, the spirit of reverence for life. — Thich Nhat Hanh

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

sinful motive often hides itself under the mask of reverence for another virtue.") — Jimmy Swaggart

The nation can prosper and be happy only when education develops in an atmosphere of Truth, Love and Reverence. — Sai Baba

But he finally saw
how pain caused
one of two things:
A reverence for life.
Or killing.
Both grew from the same seed. — Cynthia Rylant

He who loves goodness harbors angels, reveres reverence, and lives with God. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

In my darker moments, I feel like the Queen of England, bound and gagged by reverence. Tin-crowned and irrelevant. — Stacey D'Erasmo

We must worship God before we can reverence parents or women, or root out flunkeyism and money-worship. — Thomas Hughes

Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune. — Owen Glendower

Mary seeks for those who approach her devoutly and with reverence, for such she loves, nourishes, and adopts as her children. — Bonaventure

Every time you get on your knees and pray to God, 'Holy' keeps the respect and reverence while 'Father' brings Him close & intimate. — Ravi Zacharias

In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion. — Alain De Botton

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

Because of the Incarnation, I salute all remaining matter with reverence. — John Of Damascus

If and worms'-meat must have such respect, think, then, what reverence thou shouldst approach thy Maker (569). — Richard Baxter

Since I was a very small child, I've had a kind of reverence for the past, and I felt a very intimate connection with it. — Hilary Mantel

I should think this a gull, but that the white-bearded fellow speaks it; knavery cannot, sure, hide himself in such reverence. — William Shakespeare

Reverence awakens in the soul a sympathetic power through which we attract qualities in the beings around us, which would otherwise remain concealed. — Rudolf Steiner

Selfless giving is friendliness. An attitude towards life, a reverence for life. It is one of the highest of all ways. — Frederick Lenz

Vegetarianism should not be anything moral or religious. It is a question of aesthetics: one's sensitivity, one's respect, one's reverence for life. — Rajneesh

I can never again see a UNITED STATES MARINE without experiencing a feeling of reverence. — Edward Johnson

In democracy both a deep reverence and a sense of the comic are requisite. — Carl Sandburg

If you are truly a servant of God, then you are to serve him as a master. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Because God created the Natural - invented it out of His love and artistry - it demands our reverence. — C.S. Lewis

I want to learn his body, find every pleasure it's hiding. All this reverence and simple awe I feel when I touch him, feel his breath brush my skin. — Aleksandr Voinov

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

Spirituality begins with a reverence for the ordinary that can lead us to insights and experiences that are anything but ordinary. — Sam Harris

The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I come from a family of teachers, and I believe ideas matter; the good ones deserve reverence, and the bad ones, defiance. — Nancy Gibbs

And let us be seated, gentlemen. Drinking standing up, in a rush and without due reverence, does not become the nobility.' They — Andrzej Sapkowski

What is sacred is what is worthy of our reverence, what evokes awe and wonder in the human heart, and what, when contemplated, transforms us utterly. — Phil Cousineau

Reason must sit at the knee of instinct and learn reverence for the miraculous instinctual capacity for creation. — Jonathan Schell

Pray with reverence, not half-heartedness. — Francis Chan

Some of us who live in arid parts of the world think about water with a reverence others might find excessive. — Joan Didion

Love without reverence and enthusiasm is only friendship. — George Sand

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

Nutt was young and as such did not have that reverence for age that is had by, mostly, the aged. — Terry Pratchett

The better proof of reverence for that holy name would be not to profane it by making it a topic of legislative discussion ... — James Madison

A wholesome fear would be a fit guardian for the citizens. — Augustine Of Hippo

Reverence for life, veneratio vitae, is the most direct and at the same time the profoundest achievement of my will-to-live. — Albert Schweitzer

Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God. — Ignatius Of Antioch

Why "revere" the unknowable? Why not find out what it is? — Barbara Ehrenreich

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

In reverent pauses, when we slow down and think about the gift of life, we may briefly touch humility. — Bryant McGill

Above all things, reverence yourself. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. — Plato

Affliction doth not rise out of the dust or come to men by chance; but it is the Lord that sends it, and we should own and reverence His hand in it. — Thomas Boston

No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. — Jon Meacham

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality. — Albert Schweitzer

There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for actors. — Estelle Parsons

He kissed me as if I were something delicate and precious, something he cherished and held with reverence. "My first kiss. This is my first real kiss. — Emma Scott

Only when we are captured by an overwhelming sense of awe and reverence in the presence of God, will we begin to worship God in spirit and in truth. — Alistair Begg

By piety I mean that union of reverence and love to God which the knowledge of his benefits inspires. — John Calvin

Cultivate an intellectual habit of subordinating one's opinions and wishes to objective evidence and a reverence for things as they really are. — William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

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

Men in our culture have been spoiled, treated with false reverence instead of respect. — Marianne Williamson

Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now. — Frank Lloyd Wright

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

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

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

A woman wants to be adored but she doesn't want reverence. Thomas — Liane Moriarty

Esteem incites friendship, but not love; the former is the twin brother of Reverence; the latter is the child of Equality. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Nature has no reverence towards life. Nature treats life as though it were the most valueless thing in the world. ... Nature does not act by purposes. — Erwin Schrodinger

The Reverence of God is grace to act right. — Lailah Gifty Akita

... We are in a system that doesn't give a rap about sacredness. — Jean-Francois Lyotard

Sick of writers. Sick of creeds. Now I reverence. Only deeds. — Gregg Bell

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

The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it. — Thomas Carlyle

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence. — Henry David Thoreau

In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength. — Martha Graham

By gentle words and silent acts of kindness, he had won her reverence and her trust, which now had deepened into woman's truest, purest love. — Louisa May Alcott

The other side of reverence is loathing. — Martin Firrell

In the future, judges will send criminals to holy spots where reverence-provoking beauty will overwhelm their addiction to hatred. — Rob Brezsny

Reverence is fatal to literature. — E. M. Forster

Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal. — Albert Schweitzer

[The small camera] taught me energy and decisiveness and immediacy ... The large camera taught me reverence, patience, and meditation. — Joel Meyerowitz

Having the fear of God means you have such a love and reverence for God that you are afraid of what life would be like without Him. — Stormie O'martian

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

Reverence, enthusiasm, and a sense of guardianship, these three are actually the panacea, the magical remedy, in the soul of the educator and teacher. — Rudolf Steiner

Today, we see the reemergence of reverence for the Divine Mother that we
knew in past ages. — Elizabeth Clare Prophet

Rather than respond to his incalculable God-ness with our slide rules and flowcharts, we would do better to worship him with reverence and awe. — Matt Chandler

I cannot conceive of a greater wounding of the heart of Christ than to pay reverence to anything in the shape of a cross, or to bow before a crucifix! — Charles Spurgeon

Late upon the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset ... there flashed upon my mind, unforseen and unsought, the phrase 'Reverence for Life'. — Albert Schweitzer

Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Reverence of God is the greatest treasure. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

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