George Sand
Novelist, Memoirist
"Love without reverence and enthusiasm is only friendship."
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Reverence
64 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Socrates
Philosopher
"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."
Pythagoras
Philosopher, Mathematician
"Above all things, reverence yourself."
Rumi
Poet, Philosopher
"Whoever gives reverence receives reverence."
E. M. Forster
Novelist, Essayist
"Reverence is fatal to literature."
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"What the Bible says is what God has disclosed and we want to approach this sacred text with cognitive reverence."
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"Duty is the necessity to act out of reverence for the law."
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"God is not greater if you reverence Him, but you are greater if you serve Him."
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"Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments."
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"I exhort all, who reverence the Word of the Lord, to read it, and diligently imprint it on their memory."
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"Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die."
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"For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves."
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"Let reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation."
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"Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence."
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"There is a time when the hoary head of inveterate abuse will neither draw reverence nor obtain protection."
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"Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!"
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"The true eye for talent presupposes the true reverence for it."
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"In general those parents have the most reverence who most deserve it; for he that lives well cannot be despised."
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"We must approach religion with reverence and with love, and our heart will stand up and say, this is truth, and this is untruth."
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"They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new."
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"God has such a deep reverence for our freedom that he'd rather let us freely go to Hell than be compelled to go to Heaven."
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"The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality."
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"It's a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very own."
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"Kira, the highest thing in man is not his god. It's that in him which knows the reverence due a god. And you, Kira, are my highest reverence."
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"Nature is the symbol of Spirit."
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