#revere

Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion. Not to speak of its importance in philosophy. Irreverence is the only way left to us for testing our universe. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#leto-ii #philosophy #religion #religion

I thought I saw how stories of this kind could steal past a certain inhibition which had paralysed much of my own religion in childhood. Why did one find it so hard to feel as one was told one ought to feel about God or the sufferings of Christ? I thought the chief reason was that one was told one ought to. An obligation to feel can freeze feelings. And reverence itself did harm. The whole subject was associated with lowered voices; almost as if it were something medical. But supposing that by casting all these things into an imaginary world, stripping them of their stained-glass and Sunday School associations, one could make them for the first time appear in their real potency? Could one not thus steal past those watchful dragons? I thought one could. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#dragons #narnia #past-watchful-dragons #potency #reverence

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age. ↗

— Amos Bronson Alcott

#cheerful #heart #hopeful #keep #kindly

You can be revered for all sorts of qualities, but to be truly charismatic is rare. Elizabeth Taylor was, for me, one of those rarities. ↗

— Francesca Annis

#elizabeth #elizabeth taylor #me #qualities #rare

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence. ↗

— Aristotle

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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

#because #brings #evil #fear #generality

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

#america #consider #design #earth #emancipation

Know not to revere human things too much. ↗

— Aeschylus

#human things #know #much #revere #things

Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women. ↗

— Francesca Annis

#america #europe #everyone #god #grown-up

That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth. ↗

— Paul Tsongas

#earth #generations #must #reverence #sacredness