Reverence Quotes - Page 27

• The temple is a place of holiness. It is the most sacred and holy place on earth and should be treated with the greatest degree of reverence and respect.

  L. Lionel Kendrick

  Degrees, Earth, Holiness

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• Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.

  Henry Bolingbroke

  Pride, Men, Dignity

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• My effort has been not only to put the Biblical incident in the original setting… but at the same time give the human touch to convey to my public the reverence and elevation these subjects impart to me.

  Henry Ossawa Tanner

  Biblical, Giving, Effort

  Dewey F. Mosby, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Darrel Sewell, Rae Alexander-Minter, Philadelphia Museum of Art (1991). “Henry Ossawa Tanner”

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• To sanctify God is to reverence Him in our hearts, and to represent Him in the glory of His holiness before men.

  Richard Alleine

  Heart, Men, Holiness

  Richard Alleine, Joseph Alleine (2000). “Heaven Opened: The Riches of God's Covenant Grace”, p.76, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Wilderness itself is the basis of all our civilization. I wonder if we have enough reverence for life to concede to wilderness the right to live on?

  Margaret Murie

  Life, Nature, Civilization

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• Dominique as Gail looks at her "... there is a stage of worship which makes the worshiper himself an object of reverence."

  Ayn Rand

  Beauty, Looks, Worship

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• However often we turn to it [the Koran] at first disgusting us each time afresh, it soon attracts, astounds, and in the end enforces our reverence. . . . Its style, in accordance with its contents and aim is stern, grand, terrible - ever and anon truly sublime - Thus this book will go on exercising through all ages a most potent influence.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Book, Exercise

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• The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesnt enter into it.

  Jill Lepore

  Imagination, Empathy, Study

  Jill Lepore (2011). “The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle over American History”, p.162, Princeton University Press

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• To draw a tree, to pay such close attention to every aspect of a tree, is an act of reverence not only toward the tree, and toward the earth itself, but also our human connection to it. This is one of the magical things about drawing - it gives us almost visionary moments of connectedness.

  Alan Lee

  Drawing, Giving, Tree

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's time that we acknowledge the wisdom women have acquired by managing the chaos of daily life. Women are realists, the glue that holds society together. They bring a reverence to life that's instinctual, not just intellectual.

  Teresa Heinz

  Intellectual, Together, Glue

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• Love without reverence and enthusiasm is only friendship.

  George Sand

  Love, Enthusiasm

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• Therefore, I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence.

  Paul the Apostle

  Thanksgiving, Christian, Kings

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• No greater glory can be handed down than to conquer the barbarian, to recall the savage and the pagan to civility, to draw the ignorant within the orbit of reason, and to fill with reverence for divinity the godless and the ungodly.

  Richard Hakluyt

  History, Ignorant, Divinity

  Richard Hakluyt (1935). “The Original Writings & Correspondence of the Two Richard Hakluyts”

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• Tread softly as you draw near to the bedside of a dying man, for the space around him is holy ground. Speak in hushed tones, with awe and reverence, as you would in a cathedral. Let not the mind engage in trivial thoughts. The awesome majesty of Death can only be met in silence.

  Jennifer Worth

  Men, Holy Ground, Space

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• The reverence that the object maker has for the materials, for the shape, and for the miracle of his skill transcends to God, the Master Craftsman, the Creator of all things, who uses us, our hands, as His tools to make these beautiful things.

  Sam Maloof

  Beautiful, Hands, Skills

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• 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

  Christian, Men, Dust

  Thomas Boston (1848). “The Whole Works of the Late Reverend and Learned Mr. Thomas Boston, Minister of the Gospel at Etterick”, p.165

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• In the final analysis, despite our diversity, there is only one type of vegan -- a person who is committed to and practices a reverence and respect for all life.

  Joanne Stepaniak

  Practice, Diversity, Finals

  Joanne Stepaniak (2000). “Being Vegan”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Modern materialists and religious extremists alike lack the spiritual animistic reverence for non-human beings that every culture once understood as a given.

  Zeena Schreck

  Spiritual, Religious, Culture

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• Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sunday, Civilization, Sabbath

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2734, Delphi Classics

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• You may only get this one life – but lived free of submissive reverence – that is still a thing of rampant beauty.

  Trevor Treharne

  Atheist, May, Submissive

  Trevor Treharne (2012). “How to Prove God Does Not Exist: The Complete Guide to Validating Atheism”, p.262, Universal-Publishers

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• The requirements for our evolution have changed. Survival is no longer sufficient. Our evolution now requires us to develop spiritually-to become emotionally aware and make responsible choices. It requires us to align ourselves with the values of the soul-harmony, cooperation, sharing, and reverence for life.

  Gary Zukav

  Choices, Soul, Survival

  "We Can Do Better Than Attack Syria" by Gary Zukav, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 16, 2013.

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• The Sexual Revolution is a complete rebellion against authority, natural and supernatural, even against the body and its needs, its natural functions of child bearing. This is not reverence for life, it is a great denial and more resembles Nihilism than the revolution that they think they are furthering.

  Dorothy Day

  Children, Thinking, Nihilism

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• There are not sacred and profane things, places, and moments. There are only sacred and desecrated things, places, and moments-and it is we alone who desecrate them by our blindness and lack of reverence. It is one sacred universe, and we are all a part of it.

  Richard Rohr

  Sacred, Moments, Blindness

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• Solidarity, compassion, caring, communion and loving. Such values and inner powers can lay the foundation of a new paradigm of civilization, the civilization of the humanity reunited in the Common House, on the Planet Earth our mission is to celebrate the greatness of Creation and connect it again to the Core where it came from and to where it will go, with care, lightness, joy, reverence and love.

  Leonardo Boff

  Love, Inspirational, Sympathy

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• Our mission is to celebrate the greatness of Creation and connect it again to the Core where it came from and to where it will go, with care, lightness, joy, reverence and love.

  Leonardo Boff

  Greatness, Joy, And Love

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