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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

  Self, Awe, Accord

  "Uncommon Knowledge - Dr. Ursula Goodenough" by Jeannette Batz Cooperman, www.stlmag.com. July 2005.

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• In my more lucid moments I know that God is right here, right now; that God is the luminous mystery at the heart of creation and that God is here in the joys and sorrows of the world. And I try to see God in everything and treat all life with reverence.

  Sy Safransky

  Faith, Heart, Joy

  "Beginner's Mind". Interview with Gillian Kendall, thesunmagazine.org. January 2014.

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• If we rely on the Holy Spirit, we shall find that our prayers become more and more inarticulate; and when they are inarticulate, reverence grows deeper and deeper.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Spirit, Holy

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “If You Will Ask: Reflections on the Power of Prayer”, p.100, Discovery House

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• One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words. We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken. We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words - an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words - is an essential prerequisite for prayer. By the word of God the world was created.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Prayer, Our World, Broken

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• God made the forests, the tiny stars, and the wild winds-and I think that he made them partly as a balance for that kind of civilization that would choke the spirit of joy out of our hearts. He made the great open places for the people who want to be alone with him and talk to him, away from the crowds that kill all reverence. And I think that he is glad at times to have us forget our cares and responsibilities that we may be nearer him-as Jesus was when he crept away into the wilderness to pray.

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

  Jesus, Stars, Responsibility

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• Where reverence is, there is fear; for he who has a feeling of reverence and shame about the commission of any action, fears and is afraid of an ill reputation.

  Plato

  Feelings, Reputation, Action

  Plato (2010). “The Works of Plato: The Trial and Death of Socrates”, p.80, Cosimo, Inc.

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Attitude, Yoga

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• Do not ever disturb prelude music for others, for reverence is essential to revelation

  Boyd K. Packer

  Essentials, Revelations, Prelude

  Boyd K. Packer (1998). “The shield of faith”, Bookcraft, Incorporated

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• He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.

  John Locke

  Respect, Son, Order

  John Locke, Ruth Weissbourd Grant, Nathan Tarcov (1996). “Some Thoughts Concerning Education: And, Of the Conduct of the Understanding”, Hackett Publishing

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

  Bonaventure

  Religious, Children, Mary

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• I bow in reverence to the white cloud.

  Li Bai

  Nature, Clouds, White

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

  John of Damascus

  Environmental, Matter, Salute

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• This Sacrament really contains You, O my God, You whom the Angels adore, in whose presence the Spirits and mighty Powers tremble. Oh! if we could only see You clearly as they do, with what reverence would we approach this Sacrament, with what humility would we receive You.

  Angela of Foligno

  God, Humility, Angel

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• Reverence: the spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man.

  Ambrose

  Spiritual, Dog, Attitude

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• I bow in reverence before the emotions of every melted heart....The more intense the delight in their presence, the more poignant the impression of their absence....When the tears of bereavement have had their natural flow, they lead us again to life and love's generous joy.

  James Martineau

  Life And Love, Heart, Grieving

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• Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.

  Marquis de Sade

  Love, Life, Fitness

  marquis de Sade (1988). “Juliette”, Grove Press

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• Music can act upon our senses to produce or induce feelings of reverence, humility, fervor, assurance, or other feelings attuned to the spirit of worship.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Music, Humility, Feelings

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• There is a difference in just attending the temple and having a rich spiritual experience. The real blessings of the temple come as we enhance our temple experience. To do so, we must feel a spirit of reverence for the temple and a spirit of worship.

  L. Lionel Kendrick

  Spiritual, Real, Blessing

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• Is your life beautiful? Do you live in surroundings that you have made beautiful through your own unique, creative ideas? To expect and lovingly require beauty to be apparent in all areas of your life is to be deeply loving to yourself, your soul, your world, and shows reverence to God and all of life. There is always something beautiful to be found, right where you are, if you will look for it. Concentrate your thoughts on the good, the beautiful, and the true things in life.

  John Templeton

  Beauty, Beautiful, Unique

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• Esteem incites friendship, but not love; the former is the twin brother of Reverence; the latter is the child of Equality.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Brother, Children, Twins

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• If the traditional Rs (reading, writing, and arithmetic) are the basics that we want our children to master academically, then reverence, respect, and responsibility are the three Rs that our children need to master for the sake of their souls and the health of the world.

  Zoe Weil

  Inspiring, Children, Reading

  Zoe Weil (2003). “Above All, Be Kind: Raising a Humane Child in Challenging Times”, p.41, New Society Publishers

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• Here in the United States, we speak with reverence of authentic experience. We write poems about our daddies taking us fishing and breaking our hearts by making us throw the little fish back into the river. We even tell the reader the kind of car we were driving, the year and the model, to give the impression that it’s all true. It’s because we think of ourselves as journalists of a kind. Like them, we’ll go anywhere for a story. Don’t believe a word of it. As any poet can tell you, one often sees better with eyes closed than with eyes wide open.

  Charles Simic

  Believe, Eye, Writing

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• Having pets in the house helps everyone have a reverence for life.

  Bernie Siegel

  House, Pet, Reverence For Life

  Source: borderlessnewsandviews.com

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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

  Want, Feels, Knows

  Ayn Rand (2009). “We the Living”, p.106, Penguin

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• This doctrine ['that the condition of man cannot be ameliorated, that what has been must ever be, and that to secure ourselves where we are we must tread with awful reverence in the footsteps of our fathers']is the genuine fruit of the alliance between Church and State, the tenants of which finding themselves but too well in their present condition, oppose all advances which might unmask their usurpations and monopolies of honors, wealth and power, and fear every change as endangering the comforts they now hold.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Father, Men, Honor

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.570, Library of America

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