Top 1200 Reverence For Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Your Reverence, I do not hate any man in this world enough to inflict the results of my prayers upon him.

If you are approaching the music with more reverence than the original guys invested into it, you are effectively doing it a disservice.

I can never again see a UNITED STATES MARINE without experiencing a feeling of reverence.

Surely we may with reverence say that, in a true and deep sense, God Himself is the answer to prayer.

If we could understand how impossible our situation is, we would grow in reverence for the kingship of Christ.

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

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

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.

If men think that a ruler is religious and has a reverence for the Gods, they are less afraid of suffering injustice at his hands.

There is a time when the hoary head of inveterate abuse will neither draw reverence nor obtain protection.

Only when there is a wilderness can man harmonize his inner being with the wavelengths of the earth. When the earth, its products, its creatures, become his concern, man is caught up in a cause greater than his own life and more meaningful. Only when man loses himself in an endeavor of that magnitude does he walk and live with humanity and reverence.

Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

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

Our reverence for workaholism has produced corporate leaders who believe they don't need sleep, and neither should anyone else.

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

If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic.

Humility, reverence, compassion, forbearance, sacrifice and self-control are the qualities that reveal the outcome of the true education.

Reverence, enthusiasm, and a sense of guardianship, these three are actually the panacea, the magical remedy, in the soul of the educator and teacher.

I should think this a gull, but that the white-bearded fellow speaks it; knavery cannot, sure, hide himself in such reverence.

It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a person's death consecrates him or her anew to us. It is as if life were not sacred too, as if it were comparatively a small thing to fail in love and reverence to the brother or sister who has to climb the whole toilsome mountain with us. It seems as if all our tears and tenderness were due to the one who is spared that hard journey.

The better proof of reverence for that holy name would be not to profane it by making it a topic of legislative discussion.

Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?

We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.

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

For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.

The nation can prosper and be happy only when education develops in an atmosphere of Truth, Love and Reverence.

Esteem incites friendship, but not love; the former is the twin brother of Reverence; the latter is the child of Equality.

One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.

Of all the arts, music is the one communal art. It requires for its existence extensive cooperation and organization...Singing together the greatest choral music of all time is the surest way of developing in a community that sense of quality and reverence for beauty, which is the basis of a musical culture...Entertainment has its place in life just as candies and cocktails have, but health is not built on such a diet alone, nor culture exclusively on amusement.

We've never been satisfied with just making 'me' music. What we're doing is trying to go to a place of some reverence.

I'm not trying to recapture anything. It's really about moving forward. I don't have much reverence for what I've done in the past.

Whenever anyone utters with reverence the name of Babaji, that devotee attracts an instant spiritual blessing.

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

Reason must sit at the knee of instinct and learn reverence for the miraculous instinctual capacity for creation.

Cultivate an intellectual habit of subordinating one's opinions and wishes to objective evidence and a reverence for things as they really are.

What I particularly liked about Nineties hip hop was it had a certain reverence for the groove that I hadn't been hearing in a while.

It would seem to me that If this physical life, of which we are now aware, does indeed comprise the entirety of human experience, then what we seem to intuitively know to be true is entirely backwards. For if this is the case, then it must be the despicable tyrant, free of any moral values, and not the selfless compassionate who sacrifices himself for the good of mankind that is truly the one most deserving of our reverence and emulation.

How I treat a brother or sister from day to day, how I react to the sin-scarred wino on the street, how I respond to interruptions from people I dislike, how I deal with normal people in their normal confusion on a normal day may be a better indication of my reverence for life than the antiabortion sticker on the bumper of my car.

Reverence for life . . . does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very useful . . . the artist to exist only for his art, even if he gives inspiration to many. . . . It refuses to let the business man imagine that he fulfills all legitimate demands in the course of his business activities. It demands from all that they should sacrifice a portion of their own lives for others.

We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness.

The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency.

To trifle with Scripture is to deprive yourself of its aid. Reverence it, and look up to God with devout gratitude for having given it to you.

Does not every true man feel that he is himself made higher by doing reverence to what is really above him?

It is one thing to fear God as threatening, with a holy reverence, and another to be afraid of the evil threatened.

The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one's own tradition with reverence for different traditions.

What the Bible says is what God has disclosed and we want to approach this sacred text with cognitive reverence.

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

There is a little plant called reverence in the corner of my soul's garden, which I love to have watered once a week.

We live by faith; but Faith is not the slave Of text and legend. Reason's voice and God's, Nature's and Duty's, never are at odds. What asks our Father of His children, save Justice and mercy and humility, A reasonable service of good deeds, Pure living, tenderness to human needs, Reverence and trust, and prayer for light to see The Master's footprints in our daily ways? No knotted scourge nor sacrificial knife, But the calm beauty of an ordered life Whose very breathing is unworded praise! - A life that stands as all true lives have stood Firm-rooted in the faith that God is Good.

The ethic of Reverence for Life prompts us to keep each other alert to what troubles us and to speak and act dauntlessly together in discharging the responsibility that we feel. It keeps us watching together for opportunities to bring some sort of help to animals in recompense for the great misery that men inflict upon them, and thus for a moment we escape from the incomprehensible horror of existence.

...the tale that's told for no other reason but companionship, which is another (and my favorite) definition of literature, the tale that's told for companionship and to teach something religious, of religious reverence, about real life, in this real world which literature should (and here does) reflect.

In my darker moments, I feel like the Queen of England, bound and gagged by reverence. Tin-crowned and irrelevant.

It is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.

I come from a family of teachers, and I believe ideas matter; the good ones deserve reverence, and the bad ones, defiance.

There are artists who delight listeners with their wild and daring individuality; there are others who uncover the written score with reverence. There are few who can do both.

... we need to interrogate "reverence," for idolization can be another way one is objectified and not really taken seriously.

Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

We must approach religion with reverence and with love, and our heart will stand up and say, this is truth, and this is untruth.

Proper respect to others is the most prudent rule of directing the measure of reverence due to ourselves.

The spinning wheel is itself an exquisite piece of machinery. My head daily bows in reverence to its unknown inventor.