Reverence is about deeply respecting someone or something often mixed with awe fear or admiration.
It’s more than just respect; it’s treating the revered object or person with a special regard.
Reverence makes relationships beautiful and harmonious. It’s something elders often advise us to practice as respecting others brings respect in return.
Reverence is important in our daily lives. It’s not just about discipline but also about accepting others for who they are.
Without reverence life lacks both respect and understanding of others.
Let’s have a look at some of the best reverence quotes.
Reverence Quotes
Men reverence one another, not yet God. ~ Henry David Thoreau.
Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. ~ Plato
That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth. ~ Paul Tsongas.
Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal. ~ Albert Schweitzer
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence. ~ Henry David Thoreau.
Reverence: the spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man. ~ Ambrose.
The noble soul reveres itself. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche.
I have a deep respect for the fundamentals of television, the traditions of it, even, but I don’t have any reverence for it. ~ Ted Sarandos.
Reverence makes it possible to be whole, though ignorant. It is the wholeness of understanding. ~ Wendell Berry.
By cutting ourselves off from the rest of creation, we are left bereft of awe and wonder and therefore of reverence and gratitude. We violate our very beings, and we have nothing but trivia to teach our young. ~ Matthew Fox.
The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence. ~ George Eliot.
The challenge of the saints of the twenty-first century is to begin again to comprehend the sacred in the ten thousand things of our world; to reverence what we have come to view as ordinary and devoid of spirit. ~ Edward Hays.
Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright.
Quotes on Reverence
Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness, and power to forgive. ~ Albert Schweitzer
Nothing is insignificant, and everything worthy of respect and care. Nothing is second-class. What God has made is of value. ~ Paula D’Arcy
Black people are often praised as heroes for saving a country that treats us like third-class citizens, yet when it comes to the fame, fortune, even historical reverence associated with those great deeds, we’re left by the wayside. ~ Jason Johnson
Functionalism is lethal when it is not balanced by a sense of reverence. Without reverence, there is no sense of presence or wonder. ~ John O’Donohue.
The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and love, are curiously in unison with the narrowest and prettiest. ~ George Eliot.
LET us honour the King by cherishing respectful Sentiments concerning him; speaking of him with Affection, with Esteem and Reverence; and by promoting a like Spirit and Conduct in others. ~ Charles Inglis
Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression. ~ Margaret Sanger.
It was a different job in that, because it’s a ‘Star Wars’ movie and I’m a droid in a ‘Star Wars’ movie, people have a reverence for those characters that have come before me. ~ Alan Tudyk
There is only one valid way, thus, to partake of the universe – whether the partaking is of food and water, the love of another, or indeed, a pill. That way is characterized by reverence – a reverence born of a felt sense of participation in the universe, of a kinship with all others and with matter. ~ Larry Dossey.
Quotes about Reverence
Reverence is the sense that there is something larger than the self, larger even than the human, to which one accords respect and awe and assent. ~ Dr. Ursula Goodenough
Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day’s performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from it learn the all. ~ Margaret Fuller.
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life. ~ Albert Schweitzer.
Reverential thinking — to recognize human life as an intrinsic value; to recognize love as an essential and indispensable modality; creative thinking, joy, brotherhood of all beings. Reverential thinking is not a luxury, but is a condition of our sanity and grace. ~ Henryk Skolimowski
The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one’s own consistency. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson.
The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise. ~ Calvin Coolidge
I cannot but have reverence for all that is called life. I cannot avoid compassion for everything that is called life. That is the beginning and foundation of morality. ~ Albert Schweitzer
Sinful motive often hides itself under the mask of reverence for another virtue. ~ Jimmy Swaggart.
Apart from being celebrities, there’s a huge amount of respect associated with being cricketers and a certain amount of reverence and honour associated with representing India. In people’s eyes, apart from other celebrities in India, I think for sportsmen in India there’s a certain amount of regard. ~ Rahul Dravid
The mystery of life its inexplicability, beauty, cruelty, tenderness, folly … has occupied the greater part of my waking thoughts; and in reverence or rage or irony, as the moment or situation might dictate, I have pondered and even demanded of cosmic energy to know Why. ~ Theodore Dreiser.
Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt. ~ Henry IV of England
Life -the real-life of joy we are meant to be living – begins when we restore a sense of reverence to our daily affairs. Today, search for the Sacred in the ordinary with gratitude in your heart and you will surely find it. ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach.
Best Reverence Quotes
Man’s most disagreeable habits and idiosyncrasies, his deceit, his cowardice, his lack of reverence, are engendered by his incomplete adjustment to a complicated civilization. It is the result of the conflict between our instincts and our culture. ~ Sigmund Freud.
I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress. ~ Thomas Mann
Man was created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord and in this way to save his soul. The other things on Earth were created for man’s use, to help him reach the end for which he was created. ~ Saint Ignatius
Of all the preaching in the world, I hate that preaching which tends to make the hearers laugh, or to move their minds with tickling levity and affect them as stage plays used to, instead of affecting them with a holy reverence for the name of God. ~ Richard Baxter.
Hardly can it be judged whether it be better for mankind to believe that the gods have regard of us, or that they have none, considering that some men have no respect and reverence for the gods, and others so much that their superstition is a shame to them. ~ Pliny the Elder
Proper respect to others is the most prudent rule of directing the measure of reverence due to ourselves. ~ Norm MacDonald.
Let everything you touch be treated as if it were as precious as the altar vessels. Whenever you handle any equipment or any person, be reverent. Be full of care with everything entrusted to you. Everything you touch or see, everyone for whom you have responsibility is to be viewed as something cherished by God, and thus to be cherished by you. ~ Norvene Vest,
Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance and that is always conducive to humility and reverence. ~ Robert Millikan.
Nature best teaches how to pray, and how to reverence all the gifts the Almighty has given us. She is like a vast outspread handkerchief, embroidered with God’s eternal name, on which we may dry alike our tears of sorrow and of joy; she turns weeping into ecstasy, and fills our hearts with speechless, quiet reverence and resignation. ~ Robert Schumann
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world. ~ John Milton.
If not for reverence, if not for wonder, if not for love, why have we come here? ~ Raffi.
Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life – all life. ~ Roger Tory Peterson
Only as a child’s awareness and reverence for the wholeness of life are developed can his humanity to his own kind reach its full development. ~ Rachel Carson.
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. ~ Henry Beston
Reverence is a specific attitude toward something that is precious and valuable, toward someone who is superior. It is a salute of the soul, an awareness of value without enjoyment of that value or seeking any personal advantage from it. ~ Abraham J Heschel
It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence. ~ Desiderius Erasmus.
Inspiring Reverence Quotes
Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him. Samuel Butler We must guard against disrespectful, disparaging, and criticizing thoughts. We must try to practice reverence and devotion in our thinking at all times. ~ Rudolf Steiner
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.
Art is a habit-forming drug. Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth. People always speak of it with this great, religious reverence, but why should it be so revered? ~ Marcel Duchamp
Competition of praise inclineth to a reverence of antiquity. For men contend with the living, not with the dead. ~ Thomas Hobbes.
Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth. Real devotion is rooted in an awed and reverent gratitude, but one that is lucid, grounded, and intelligent. ~ Sogyal Rinpoche.
The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries. ~ Daisaku Ikeda
Whoever gives reverence receives reverence. ~ Rumi.
Inspiration comes only to those who seek it with humility toward their own achievements and reverence toward the achievements of God. ~ Walter Russell.
By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive. ~ Albert Schweitzer
A holy reverence checks our speech, And praise sits silent on our tongues. ~ Isaac Watts.
Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery. ~ Richard Powers
Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life. ~ Albert Schweitzer
By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive. ~ Albert Schweitzer
Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments. ~ Thomas Merton
If you see a philosopher determining all things by means of right reason, him you shall reverence: he is a heavenly being and not of this earth. ~ Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions. ~ Bodhidharma.
Famous Reverence Quotes
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
The fitness of the pupil is shown in his love for the acquisition of knowledge, his willingness to receive instruction, his reverence for learned and virtuous men, his attendance upon the teacher, and his execution of orders. ~ Dayananda Saraswati
I really believe in science. It is a faith. It is a reverence akin to religion. But as we always say, it’s different from religion in that, as near as we can tell, it exists outside of us. It has an objective quality, the process of science. ~ Bill Nye
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
Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence. ~ George Eliot.
Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague. ~ Norman Douglas
Reverence is fatal to literature. ~ E. M. Forster
Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away. ~ Sextus Propertius
Grateful daughters of God guard their bodies carefully, for they know they are the wellsprings of life, and they reverence life. They don’t uncover their bodies to find favor with the world. They walk in modesty to be in favor with their Father In Heaven. They know he loves them dearly. ~ Margaret D. Nadauld
When we walk on the earth with reverence, beauty will decide to trust us. The rushed heart and arrogant mind lack the gentleness and patience to enter that embrace. ~ John O’Donohue.
Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap – let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice. ~ Abraham Lincoln.
I come from a family of teachers, and I believe ideas matter; the good ones deserve reverence, and the bad ones, defiance. ~ Nancy Gibbs.
The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures. ~ Stewart Udall Brother.
What we call love is in its essence reverence for life. ~ Albert Schweitzer.
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.
There are men whose presence infuses trust and reverence. ~ George Eliot.
By the external appearance of your knowledge, you have attained (high) ranks and reverence with the people! ~ Wuhayb ibn al-Wird.
Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune. ~ Owen Glendower.
The requirements for our evolution have changed. Survival is no longer sufficient. Our evolution now requires us to develop spiritually – to become emotionally aware and make responsible choices. It requires us to align ourselves with the values of the soul – harmony, cooperation, sharing, and reverence for life. ~ Gary Zukav.
Democracy is not merely a form of government. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards fellow men. ~ B. R. Ambedkar.
