Reverence Quotes

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  Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.

  John Milton

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  "Gratitude in Grief: Finding Daily Joy and a Life of Purpose Following the Death of My Son" by Kelly S. Buckley, (p. 133), 2010.

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• Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Respect, Appreciate

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.27, Heron Dance Press

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• Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power to forgive.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Light, White, Empathy

  Albert Schweitzer (1965). “The Teaching of Reverence for Life”, New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston

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• Whoever gives reverence receives reverence.

  Rumi

  Giving

  "Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance". Book by Rumi, translated by Camille Adams Helminsk and Kabir Helminski, 1990.

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• Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression.

  Margaret Sanger

  Strong Women, Courage, Struggle

  Margaret Sanger (2005). “Woman and the New Race”, p.99, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiring, Sitting, Body

  Swami Vivekananda, Swami Adiswarananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.91, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.

  George Eliot

  Friendship, Trust, Character

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1454, Delphi Classics

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

  Saint Augustine

  Greater, Ifs

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

  Raffi

  Wonder, Ifs

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• Even the weakest and most vulnerable, the sick, the old, the unborn and the poor, are masterpieces of God's creation, made in his own image, destined to live for ever, and deserving of the utmost reverence and respect.

  Pope Francis

  Sick, Pro Life, God's Creation

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• We must embrace our differences, even celebrate our diversity. We must glory in the fact that God created each of us as unique human beings. God created us different, but God did not create us for separation. God created us different that we might recognize our need for one another. We must reverence our uniqueness, reverence everything that makes us what we are: our language, our culture, our religious tradition.

  Desmond Tutu

  Religious, Unique, Differences

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• What we call love is in its essence reverence for life.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Love, Essence, Reverence For Life

  Albert Schweitzer (1956). “An anthology”

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

  Plato

  Family, Children, Plato

  Plato, Charles Henry Augustus Bulkley (1876). “Plato's Best Thoughts: Compiled from Prof. Jowett's Translation of the Dialogues of Plato”, p.62

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• 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

  Spiritual, Yoga, Deep Life

  "The evolutions of ethics". The Atlantic Monthly, CCII, reprinted in "Unified English", Ardent Media, p. 247, November 1958.

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• Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies.

  John Milton

  Gratitude, Everyday, Thankfulness

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• Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Violence, Conflict, Environment

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• 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

  Spirit, Worship, Overwhelming

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

  Matthew Henry

  Joy, Word Of God

  Matthew Henry, Leslie F. Church (1992). “The NIV Matthew Henry Commentary in One Volume: Based on the Broad Oak Edition”, p.3310, Harper Collins

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• Reverence invites Revelation

  Boyd K. Packer

  Missionary, Revelations, Invites

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• Real Life - the real life of joy we are meant to be living - begins when we restore a sense of reverence to our daily affairs. Today, search for the Sacred in the ordinary with gratitude in your heart and you will surely find it.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Gratitude, Real, Heart

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• Within each of us there is an intense need to feel that we belong. This feeling of unity and togetherness comes through the warmth of a smile, a handshake, or a hug, through laughter and unspoken demonstrations of love. It comes in the quiet, reverent moments of soft conversation and in listening.

  William R. Bradford

  Laughter, Feelings, Unity

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• The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy. Daily prayers are delivered on the lips of breaking waves, the whisperings of grasses, the shimmering of leaves.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Prayer, Whispering, World

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

  Rudolf Steiner

  Children, Educate

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• The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures.

  Stewart Udall

  Brother, Native American, Son

  Stewart L. Udall (1988). “The quiet crisis and the next generation”, Gibbs Smith

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