Reverence Quotes & Sayings

Reverence Quotes & Sayings

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We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us. [Following the Equator, 1897] - Mark Twain



Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God. - Sir Francis Bacon



Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. That is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good ; consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil. - Albert Schweitzer



All that I have to say to the world and to mankind is contained in the notion, reverence for life. - Albert Schweitzer



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



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



When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton



Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral. - Sir Francis Bacon



St. Leon raised his kindling eye, And lifts the sparkling cup on high; 'I drink to one,' he said, 'Whose image never may depart, Deep graven on this grateful heart, Till memory be dead.' St. Leon paused, as if he would Not breathe her name in careless mood Thus lightly to another; Then bent his noble head, as though To give the word the reverence due, And gently said, 'My mother! - Sir Walter Scott