"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."
"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."
"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."
"Nature is the symbol of Spirit."
"I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence."
"There are men whose presence infuses trust and reverence."
"The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence."
"If you are approaching the music with more reverence than the original guys invested into it, you are effectively doing it a disservice."
"Men reverence one another, not yet God."
"Let us seek to fathom those things that are fathomable and reserve those things which are unfathomable for reverence in quietude."