Reverence Quotes

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

God, Human, Everything

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
Aristotle

Men, Fear, Evil

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
Aristotle

Men, Fear, Swayed

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

Children, Parents, Spirit

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

Love, Path, Walk

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.
Socrates

Fear, Everywhere, Extension

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
Albert Camus

Love, Experience, Exhausted

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

Life, Change, Experience

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

Life, Good, Spiritual

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
John Adams

Design, America, Earth

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
Albert Schweitzer

Life, Nothing, Else

The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.
Calvin Coolidge

Blame, Works, Praise

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.
Albert Schweitzer

Life, Lose, Loses

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

Life, Highest, Court

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

Life, Morality, Principle

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
Samuel Butler

Respect, Lie, Person

Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments.
Thomas Merton

Treats, Due, Products

Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.
John Ruskin

Love, Happiness, Hope

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.
Pythagoras

Light, Star, Above

Reverence is fatal to literature.
E. M. Forster

Literature, Fatal

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

Great, Respect, True

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.
Sophocles

Live, Die, Whether

We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.
Eric Hoffer

Mind, Nothing, Human

It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.
Desiderius Erasmus

Pay, Intellect, Antiquity

Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
Bodhidharma

Real, Self, Humility

Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.
David Seabury

Love, Work, Nature

Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.
Havelock Ellis

Life, Sex, Understand

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

Son, American, Brother

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

Speak, Since, Authority

Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.
Roger Tory Peterson

Life, Understand, Beginning

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