R Quotes
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“Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe.”
Source: An Anthology
“Reverence for life is more than solicitude or sensitivity for life. It is a sense of the whole, a capacity for inspired response, a respect for the intricate universe of individual life. It is the supreme awareness of awareness itself.”
Source: The Celebration of Life: A Dialogue on Hope, Spirit, and the Immortality of the Soul
“Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.”
Source: Civilization and Ethics
“Reverence for life, veneratio vitæ, is the most direct and at the same time the profoundest achievement of my will-to-live.”
Source: Albert Schweitzer's Ethical Vision: A Sourcebook
“Reverence for the Supreme Being, based upon His supposed resemblance to man. The pig is taught by sermons and epistles / To think the God of Swine has snout and bristles.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
“Reverence invites Revelation”
“Reverence is a good thing, and part of its value is that the more we revere a man, the more sharply are we struck by anything in him (and there is always much) that is incongruous with his greatness.”
Source: And Even Now
“Reverence is a perception of the soul. Reverence is a natural aspect of authentic empowerment because the soul reveres all of Life. When the personality is aligned with the soul, it cannot perceive life except with reverence. Approaching life with reverence is a step toward moving the personality into alignment with the soul because it brings an aspect of the soul directly into the physical environment.”
“Reverence is an attitude of honoring life.
Reverence automatically brings forth patience.
Reverence permits non-judgemental justice.
Reverence is a perception of the soul.”
“Reverence is an attitude of honoring Life. You do not have to be authentically powered to be gentle with Life or to love Life.”
“Reverence is an emotion that we can nurture in our very young children, respect is an attitude that we instill in our children as they become school-agers, and responsibility is an act that we inspire in our children as they grow through the middle years and become adolescents.”
Source: Above All, Be Kind: Raising a Humane Child in Challenging Times
“Reverence is an ennobling sentiment; it is felt to be degrading only by the vulgar mind, which would escape the sense of its own littleness by elevating itself into an antagonist of what is above it. He that has no pleasure in looking up is not fit so much as to look down. Of such minds are mannerists in Art; in the world, tyrants of all sorts.”
Source: Lectures on Art, and Poems
“Reverence is fatal to literature.”
Source: Two Cheers for Democracy
“Reverence is simply the experience of accepting that all Life is, in and of itself, of value.”
“Reverence is the highest quality of man's nature; and that individual, or nation, which has it slightly developed, is so far unfortunate. It is a strong spiritual instinct, and seeks to form channels for itself where none exists; thus Americans, in the dearth of other objects to worship, fall to worshiping themselves.”
“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.”
“Reverence makes it possible to be whole, though ignorant. It is the wholeness of understanding.”
Source: Standing by Words
“Reverence reduces hostility.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“Reverence the gods, and help men. Short is life.”
Source: Meditations
“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.”
Source: The Dial: A Magazine for Literature, Philosophy, and Religion
“Reverence to a woman in courtship is less to be dispensed with, as, generally, there is but little of it shown afterwards.”
“Reverence without revision isn't sanctity, it's stagnation.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“Reverence, enthusiasm, and a sense of guardianship, these three are actually the panacea, the magical remedy, in the soul of the educator and teacher.”
Source: Balance in Teaching
“Reverence, human of the Earth, is the fundamental element of all existence, so it is therefore also the fundamental element of love itself, which is built on this all-embracing reverence. And since this is so in truth, it is also an impossible thing that love, once awakened and built up in truthfulness, can ever weaken again and become cold, or could transform into hate or be annihilated.”
“Reverence, humility, contentment, gratitude and hearing the good Dhamma, this is the best good luck.”
“Reverence: the spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man.”
“Reverend Don Marxhausen disagreed with all the riffs on Satan. He saw two boys with hate in their eyes and assault weapons in their hands. He saw a society that needed to figure out how and why - fast. Blaming Satan was just letting them off easy, he felt, and copping out on our responsibility to investigate. The "end of days" fantasy was even more infuriating.”
Source: Columbine
“Reverend Fathers, my letters did not usually follow each other at such close intervals, nor were they so long.... This one would not be so long had I but the leisure to make it shorter.”
“Reverend Galamison is fighting a hard battle against great opposition, and I admire a man who fights a hard battle against great opposition.”
“Reverend Hale is so interesting because at first he's like, "Oh, she's got the mark." Then by the end he's like, "You're all crazy."”
“Reverend Kirk stated the case [of sexual contact] more clearly when he said: "In our Scotland there are numerous and beautiful creatures of that aerial order, who frequently assign meetings to lascivious young men as succubi, or as joyous mistresses and prostitutes, who are called Leannain Sith or familiar spirits. "I hardly need to remind the reader of the importance of such "familiar spirits" in medieval occultism, particularly in Rosicrucian theories. Nor do I need to mention the number of accused witches who were condemned to death on the evidence that they had such familiar spirits. Like the modern abductees examined by Budd Hopkins, the women accused of witchcraft usually had a strange mark or scar somewhere on their body.”
Source: Dimensions: A Casebook of Alien Contact
“Reverend Samuel H. Weed, at my request selected two Greek words, 'cheir' and 'praktikos', meaning when combined, 'done by hand.' From which I coined the word, 'CHIROPRACTIC.'”
“Reverend Smith, he recognized me and punched me in the nose.”
“Reverend Ted Haggard's followers still think he's not gay. I'm not kidding. In their world, there are no gay people. There are just straight people who are sinning. They don't want to do it, but the Devil makes them! He targets people like Reverend Ted. That's how it happened. The Devil got hold of Reverend Ted, and Ted said, 'Get thee behind me, Satan! And put it in, gently'.”
“Reverend Wright has been my friend and mentor for over 20 years.”
“Reverential human acts of submission and homage before the divine Sovereign, in response to his gracious revelation of himself, and in accordance with his will.”
“Reverie is commonly classified among the phenomena of psychic detente. It is lived out in a relaxed time which has no linking force. Since it functions with inattention, it is often without memory. It is a flight from out of the real that does not always find a consistent unreal world.”
“Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.”
“Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with other men an escape from reality, but the means by which he accedes to it.”
Source: Mr. Maugham Himself
“Reversal by a higher court is not proof that justice is thereby better done. There is no doubt that if there were a super-Supreme Court, a substantial proportion of our reversals of state courts would also be reversed. We are not final because we are infallible, but we are infallible only because we are final.”
“Reversals and regressions are as much a part of the cycle of life as anything else.”
Source: Ego Is the Enemy
“Reverse Darwinism: survival of the most idiotic.”
“Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.”
Source: Power Golf
“Reverse petting zoo. You pet the animals, and they pet you back.”
“Reverse psychology is an awesome tool, I don't know if you guys know about it, but basically you can make someone think the opposite of what you believe, and that tricks them into doing something stupid. Works like a charm.”
“Reverse the ball one time for a good shot, two times for a great shot, three times for a layup.”
“Reverse the typical American meal pattern and instead eat like a king for breakfast, a prince for lunch and a pauper for supper.”
Source: Jane Brody's The New York times guide to personal health
“Reversed [Hillary Clinton's] position on charter schools, reversed her position on changing the way our urban education is run, because she has sold out to the teachers union.”
“Reversible decisions are two-way doors, allowing for agility in the face of uncertainty.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“Reversing a proposition rearranges its terms, but still keeps out new terms.”