“Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicity believe, and abide by their belief.” BelieveWellsMeanPersonsMadeChristianBeliefUnderstandingChristianityObedienceReverenceGood ChristianInquisitive Author:Michel de Montaigne
“Belief in God is almost universal and the effect of this belief is so vast that one is appalled at the thought of what social conditions would be if reverence for God were erased from every heart.” IfsHeartWould BeBeliefSocialConditionsEffectsUniversalReverenceBelief In GodSocial Conditions Book:In His Image: By William Jennings Bryan Source: In His Image: By William Jennings Bryan
“Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits.” DesireBeliefPassionateLoyaltyAcquireReverenceTraitsReverseAnimatedPassionate Desire Book:American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier Source: American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier
“To have loved and lost, either by that total disenchantment which leaves compassion as the sole substitute for love which can exist no more, or by the slow torment which is obliged to let go day by day all that constitutes the diviner part of love - namely, reverence, belief, and trust, yet clings desperately to the only thing left it, a long-suffering apologetic tenderness - this lot is probably the hardest any woman can have to bear.” LongSufferingBeliefLostLeftCompassionBearsLetting GoHardestSubstitutesReverenceSoleTendernessTormentObligedApologeticLong SufferingDisenchantmentLoved And Lost Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik