#reverence

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

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

#become #deep #enter #good #having

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#ethics #life #nothing #reverence #than

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#his #life #lose #loses #man

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#fundamental #fundamental principle #life #me #morality

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

Playing Christ, I began to feel shut away from the world. A newspaper became one of my biggest luxuries. I noticed that some of my close friends began treating me with reverence. ↗

— Max von Sydow

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Life must have its sacred moments and its holy places. We need the infinite, the limitless, the uttermost -- all that can give the heart a deep and strengthening peace. ↗

— A. Powell Davies

#life #meaning #peace #reverence #life

(On the death of Colonel Robert Green Ingersoll) Except for my daughters, I have not grieved for any death as I have grieved for his. His was a great and beautiful spirit, he was a man – all man, from his crown to his footsoles. My reverence for him was deep and genuine. ↗

— Mark Twain

#eulogy #friend #funeral #grief #love

Greatness is one of the sensations of littleness ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#irreverence #humor