I'd like to go back to poetry again. I really, really revere good poetry. It's been my private discipline.
The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
Let us therefore be of a reverent spirit, and fear the long-suffering of God, that it tend not to our condemnation.
To be reverent is not just to be quiet. It involves an awareness of what is taking place. It involves a divine desire to learn and to be receptive to the promptings of the Spirit. It involves a striving to seek added light and knowledge.
I grew up in a household that revered building businesses. It wasn't thinking about leadership; it was more about building something. To build something, you ultimately have to lead.
If only your pure and clean mind could touch me, dear Haydn, nobody has a greater reverence for you than I have.
I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about.
We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.
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.
Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.
If Paul Revere had been a modern day citizen, he wouldn't have ridden down Main Street. He would have tweeted.
The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity.
Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?
Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
Because misogynists are the best of men.” All the poets reacted to these words with hooting. Boccaccio was forced to raise his voice: “Please understand me. Misogynists don’t despise women. Misogynists don’t like femininity. Men have always b...
Modern life seems to recede further and further away from nature, and closely connected with this fact we seem to be losing the feeling of reverence towards nature. It is probably inevitable when science and machinery, capitalism and materialism go h...
Therefore, let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.
The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold. 69 L
Johnny Appleseed was revered . . he was . . . an evangelist (of a doctrine veering perilously close to pantheism).
We believe that a man does not have to be devoted to the winning side for his loyalty to be celebrated with reverence.
In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.
