Reverence
Profound respect and esteem mingled with fear and affection, as for a holy being or place; the disposition to revere; veneration.
The act of revering; a token of respect or veneration; an obeisance.
That which deserves or exacts manifestations of reverence; reverend character; dignity; state.
A person entitled to be revered; -- a title applied to priests or other ministers with the pronouns his or your; sometimes poetically to a father.
To regard or treat with reverence; to regard with respect and affection mingled with fear; to venerate.
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Reverence Quotations
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.
Socrates
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
Henry David Thoreau
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
Aristotle
Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
Aristotle
Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
Plato
The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
Swami Vivekananda
When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
Albert Camus
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
John Adams
We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.
Eric Hoffer
Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.
Henry Ellis
Reverence Translations
reverence in German is Ehrfurcht
reverence in Latin is veneratio, saluto
reverence in Spanish is reverencia
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