Quotes about Reverence

Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe.

In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence

My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized. It is an irony of fate that I myself have been the recipient of excessive admiration and reverence from my fellow-beings, through no fault, and no merit, of my own. The cause of this may well be the desire, unattainable for many, to understand the few ideas to which I have with my feeble powers attained through ceaseless struggle.

People have so great a need to reverence, to worship, to adore; it is a psychological necessity of human nature that must be taken into account.

Man's insulting God is not reversed by our insulting man.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

If you keep the Sabbath, you start to see creation not as somewhere to get away from your ordinary life, but a place to frame an attentiveness to your life.

We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.

If our God were small enough for us to understand, He wouldn't be big enough to save us.

By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.

Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.