Reverence Quotations | Page 2

Reverence for life, veneratio vitæ, is the most direct and at the same time the profoundest achievement of my will-to-live.

The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.

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...

It is our duty to share and maintain life. Reverence concerning all life in the greatest commandment in its most elementary form. Or expressed in negative terms : Thou shalt not kill. We take this prohibition so lightly, thoughtlessly plucking a flow

There is a time when the hoary head of inveterate abuse will neither draw reverence nor obtain protection.

What we call love is in its essence reverence for life.

The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.

The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life.

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.

Let reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation.

If we want revivals, we must revive our reverence for the Word of God.

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life, and that to destroy, to harm, or to hinder life is evil

Reverence for Life Revisited: Albert Schweitzer's Relevance Today.

Reverence is the chief joy and power of life - reverence for that which is pure and bright in youth; for what is true and tried in age; for all that is gracious among the living, great among the dead, - and marvelous in the powers that cannot die

There are men whose presence infuses trust and reverence.

The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence.

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.

Nature is the symbol of Spirit.

The true eye for talent presupposes the true reverence for it.

We must approach religion with reverence and with love, and our heart will stand up and say, this is truth, and this is untruth.

Whoever gives reverence receives reverence

In general those parents have the most reverence who most deserve it; for he that lives well cannot be despised.

God is not greater if you reverence Him, but you are greater if you serve Him.

The nation can prosper and be happy only when education develops in an atmosphere of Truth, Love and Reverence.