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Letter "R" » reverence
«Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.»
«Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity.»
Author: Henry Beston
| About:
Learning
| Keywords:
banishment, mood, poetic, put away, reverence, vanishes, vulgar
«If you set your heart upon philosophy, you must straightway prepare yourself to be laughed at and mocked by many who will say Behold a philosopher arisen among us! or How came you by that brow of scorn? But do you cherish no scorn, but hold to those things which seem to you the best, as one set by God in that place. Remember too, that if you abide in those ways, those who first mocked you, the same shall afterwards reverence you; but if you yield to them, you will be laughed at twice as much as before.»
Author: Epictetus
| Keywords:
abide, afterwards, arisen, brow, cherish, laughed, mocked, place setting, reverence, scorn, straightway
«Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books.»
Author: John Updike
| Keywords:
book review, conditioned, cut down, Evening News, holier-than-thou, holier, holy book, Last Judgment, pages, reverence, review, Second Coming, subject to, The Last Judgment, The New York, The Second Coming
«In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence, for he finds it impossible to imagine that he is the first to have thought out the exceedingly delicate threads that connect his perceptions»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
connect, delicate, exceedingly, First to, perceptions, reverence, searcher, threads
«If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Life,
Men
| Keywords:
For any, loses, reverence, reverenced, reverences
«Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
crooked, crooks, however, narrow, narrowed, narrower, narrowest, narrowing, narrows, path, pursue, reverence, reverenced, reverences, some, The Walking, walk about, walk out, walk out of, with love
«Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.»
«Read it as you would any other book; think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence from your eyes; drive from your heart the phantom of fear; push from the throne of your brain the cowled form of superstition - then read the Holy Bible, and you will be amazed that you ever, for one moment, supposed a being of infinite wisdom, goodness, and purity to be the author of such ignorance and of such atrocity.»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| About:
Reading,
Thinking
| Keywords:
amazed, atrocities, atrocity, author, bandage, bandaged, bandages, cowled, Holy Bible, holy book, phantom, purity, push, reverence, superstition, The Author, The Holy Bible, The Phantom, The Phantom of, throne
«No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Soul,
Trust
| Keywords:
desolate, desolated, desolating, reverence, reverenced, reverences
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