Reverence Quotes - Page 8

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

  John Calvin

  Memories, Lord

  John Calvin (1845). “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.13, Lulu.com

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• The challenge to each human is creation. Will you create with reverence, or with neglect?

  Gary Zukav

  Challenges, Creation, Neglect

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Mar 20, 2013

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• Democracy is not merely a form of Government.
  It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience.
  It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards our fellow men.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Attitude, Men, Democracy

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• Because God created the Natural - invented it out of His love and artistry - it demands our reverence.

  C. S. Lewis

  Demand, His Love, Natural

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.158, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Sunday morning, before we go to hear the Word of God preached...let us not rush into God’s presence careless, reckless, and unprepared, as if it mattered not in what way such work was done. Let us carry with us faith, reverence, and prayer. If these three are our companions, we will hear with profit, and return with praise.

  J. C. Ryle

  Morning, Prayer, Sunday

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke”, p.146, Editora Dracaena

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• If the text is God's Word, it is appropriate that we respond with reverence, a certain fear, a holy joy, a questing obedience.

  D. A. Carson

  Joy, Obedience, Holy

  D. A. Carson (1991). “The Gospel According to John”, p.6, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• But the most deplorable effect of all, is that diminution of attachment and reverence, which steals into the hearts of the people, towards a political system which betrays so many marks of infirmity, and disappoints so many of their flattering hopes. No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected, without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.

  James Madison

  Heart, Government, Attachment

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.306, Coventry House Publishing

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• I live in a country where we put children in shackles and in concrete cells. Working together, with righteousness and hope, we can create a country that is about reverence and reconciliation, not a world of shackles and concrete cells.

  Lateefah Simon

  Country, Children, Cells

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• I think along the way, as we treat nature as model and mentor, and not as a nuisance to be evaded or manipulated, we will certainly acquire much more reverence for life than we seem to be showing right now.

  Amory Lovins

  Life, Intelligent, Thinking

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• Woman has been the target of much that is sordid and cheap, especially in photography. To raise, to elevate, to endorse with timeless reverence the image of woman, has been my mission.

  Ruth Bernhard

  Photography, Target, Photographer

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• The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life.

  Desmond Tutu

  Mean, Reverence For Life, Death Penalty

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• The perspective that many today are beginning to see as fully realistic is that democracy in our country, and in our part of the world, will suffer the same fate as the Swedish monarchy did before. The democracy is beeing emptied of all power political content at the same time as the forms remain, treated with reverence and preservasion.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Country, Fate, Perspective

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• Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image bow the vulgar great, the vainly rich, the miserable proud, the mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings, and with blind feelings reverence the power that grinds them to the dust of misery.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Kings, Power, Dust

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1874). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.10

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• Whoever would be a teacher of men let him begin by teaching himself before teaching others; and let him teach by example before teaching by word. For he who teaches himself and rectifies his own ways is more deserving of respect and reverence than he who would teach others and rectify their ways.

  Khalil Gibran

  Respect, Teacher, Teaching

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• How much more do they deserve our reverence and praise, whose lives are devoted to the formation of institutions, which, when they and their children are mingled in the common dust, may continue to cherish the principles and the practice of liberty in perpetual freshness and vigour.

  Joseph Story

  Children, Government, Dust

  Joseph Story (1833). “Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution”, p.486

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• When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. The two things that nearly all of us have thoroughly and really been through are childhood and youth. And though we would not have them back again on any account, we feel that they are both beautiful, because we have drunk them dry.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Love, Beautiful, Two

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• The difference between an amateur and a professional photographer is that the amateur thinks the camera does the work. And they treat the camera with a certain amount of reverence. It is all about the kind of lens you choose, the kind of film stock you use… exactly the sort of perfection of the camera. Whereas, the professional the real professional – treats the camera with unutterable disdain. They pick up the camera and sling it aside. Because they know it’s the eye and the brain that count, not the mechanism that gets between them and the subject that counts.

  David Hemmings

  Real, Eye, Thinking

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• But if it's true it's beautiful. Truth is beautiful. And so my whole work is about what amounts to a reverence for life itself.

  Roy DeCarava

  Beautiful, Reverence For Life, Truth Is

  "Roy DeCarava, Harlem Insider Who Photographed Ordinary Life, Dies at 89" by Randy Kennedy, www.nytimes.com. October 28, 2009.

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• Vampires Are Us: Understanding Our Love Affair with the Immortal Dark Side,” is now out! Quote: “Vampires let us play with death and the issue of mortality. They let us ponder what it would mean to be truly long lived. Would the long view allow us to see the world differently, imagine social structures differently? Would it increase or decrease our reverence for the planet? Vampires allow us to ask questions we usually bury.

  Margot Adler

  Mean, Dark, Views

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• Of all the preaching in the world, I hate that preaching which tends to make the hearers laugh, or to move their minds with tickling levity and affect them as stage plays used to, instead of affecting them with a holy reverence for the name of God.

  Richard Baxter

  Hate, Moving, Play

  Richard Baxter (1862). “The Reformed Pastor”, p.181

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• The mystic reverence, the religious allegiance, which are essential to a true monarchy, are imaginative sentiments that no legislature can manufacture in any people.

  Walter Bagehot

  Religious, People, Religion

  'The English Constitution' (1867) 'The Cabinet'

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• I am not a morose person, but I would rather not be here. I don't have any reverence for life, only for the entities themselves. I would rather see a blank space where I am. This will sound like fruitcake stuff again but at least I wouldn't be harming anything.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Space, Fruitcake, Stuff

  "The Washington Post", November 13, 1983.

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• We reverence God and we hallow God's name when our life is such that it brings honor to God and attracts others to Him.

  William Barclay

  Christian, Names, Honor

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• The fact that the most powerful and significant connections in our lives are (at the time) invisible to us seems to me a compelling argument for religious reverence rather than skeptical empiricism as a response to life's meaning.

  David Foster Wallace

  Religious, Powerful, Connections

  "All That" by David Foster Wallace, www.newyorker.com. December 14, 2009.

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• I remember myself, that when I was young, I had sometime the company of one ancient godly minister, who was of weaker parts than many others, but yet did profit me more than most; because he would never in prayer or conference speak of God, or the life to come, but with such marvelous seriousness and reverence, as if he had seen the majesty and glory which he talked of.

  Richard Baxter

  Prayer, Godly, Majesty

  Richard Baxter, William Orme (1830). “The Practical Works of the Rev. Richard Baxter, with a Life of the Author, and a Critical Examination of His Writings”, p.256

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