#reverence

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

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Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt. ↗

— Henry Bolingbroke

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Irreverence is easy - what's hard is wit. ↗

— Tom Lehrer

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The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

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Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

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Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence. ↗

— Robert Millikan

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Authentic faith leads us to treat others with unconditional seriousness and to a loving reverence for the mystery of the human personality. Authentic Christianity should lead to maturity, personality, and reality. It should fashion whole men and women living lives of love and communion. False, manhandled religion produces the opposite effect. Whenever religion shows contempt or disregards the rights of persons, even under the noblest pretexts, it draws us away from reality and God. ↗

— Brennan Manning

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