Quotes for All
I confess, right at the start, to the doubts – and sometimes outright dreads – that go with me as I climb the stairs to my study in the morning, coffee mug in hand: I have to admit to the habitual apprehension mixed with a sort of reverence, as I light the incense . . … Read more
One of the cardinal sins in our country is profanity — the taking of the name of the Lord in vain. Reverence for the name of Deity is enjoined in holy writ. Jesus made this clear when teaching His disciples to pray. He said, addressing the Father, Hallowed be thy name: (see Matthew 6:9). Blaspheming … Read more
I reverence the Constitution of the United States as a sacred document. To me its words are akin to the revelations of God, for God has placed his stamp of approval on the Constitution of this land. Ezra Taft Benson
We live in an age of science and of abundance. The care and reverence for books as such, proper to an age when no book was duplicated until someone took the pains to copy it out by hand, is obviously no longer suited to ’the needs of society’, or to the conservation of learning. The … Read more
Humility, a sense of reverence before the sons of heaven – of all the prizes that a mortal man might win, these, I say, are wisest; these are best. Euripides
There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for actors. Estelle Parsons
Nature has no reverence towards life. Nature treats life as though it were the most valueless thing in the world…. Nature does not act by purposes. Erwin Schrodinger
For a moment I had a strange intuition that just this, and in a real, profound sense, is life; and perhaps happiness even – love with a mixture of sadness, reverence, and silent knowledge. Erich Maria Remarque
We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind. Eric Hoffer
If you set your heart upon philosophy, you must straightway prepare yourself to be laughed at and mocked by many who will say Behold a philosopher arisen among us! or How came you by that brow of scorn? But do you cherish no scorn, but hold to those things which seem to you the best, … Read more