#reverence

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

The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#builds #due #each #factory #man

No matter who we are, where we live, what we look like, the circumstances of our birth or the situations we face; each of us has gifts within us. Strength, beauty, courage, compassion, hope, joy, talent, imagination, reverence, wisdom, love and faith are among them. They are not like material presents we unwrap and hold in our hands. We can’t see these gifts with our eyes. But they are real and powerful. When we open ourselves to them, they can enrich every aspect of our lives. They can help us transform challenges into opportunities and tragedies into triumphs. They can help us make a difference in the world. ↗

— Charlene Costanzo

#compassion #courage #faith #healing #hope

Reverence is fatal to literature. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#literature #reverence

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself. ↗

— Pythagoras

#all things #cloud #light #reverence #shadow

Above all things, reverence yourself. ↗

— Pythagoras

#all things #reverence #things #yourself

I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer. ↗

— Brendan Behan

#beer #cheaper #connected #except #food

I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#i #i love #love #progress #reverence

Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever. ↗

— John Ruskin

#forever #happiness #him #hope #live

Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#asks #body #church #nature #reverenced