#revere

Here's the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family, which is why a child born today of unmarried parents in Sweden has a better chance of growing up in a house with both of his parents than a child born to a married couple in America. Here we revere the couple, there they revere the family. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#better #better chance #born #both #chance

Right now my mind is on the people who stole our instruments, and, specifically, the person with my guitar, which will no doubt end its days having Green Day songs worked out on it. A better fate was deserved - and while the reverence given to guitars annoys me, I shall miss it. ↗

— Jonny Greenwood

#better #day #days #deserved #doubt

Abba is not Hebrew, the language of liturgy, but Aramaic, the language of home and everyday life … We need to be wary of the suggestion … that the correct translation of Abba is ‘Daddy.’ Abba is the intimate word of a family circle where that obedient reverence was at the heart of the relationship, whereas Daddy is the familiar word of a family circle from which all thoughts of reverence and obedience have largely disappeared … The best English translation of Abba is simply ‘Dear Father. ↗

— Thomas A. Smail

#christianity #daddy #fatherhood #reverence #translation

We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#consider #human #human body #human mind #mind

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

#compliment #him #his #kind #lie

Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#know #learn #lies #life #never

There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for actors. ↗

— Estelle Parsons

#acting #because #me #now #reverence

Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away. ↗

— Sextus Propertius

#being #being done #done #every #every man

If only your pure and clean mind could touch me, dear Haydn, nobody has a greater reverence for you than I have. ↗

— Franz Schubert

#could #dear #greater #i #me

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. ↗

— David Seabury

#choose #destiny #follow #gives #handiwork