#reverence

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

Reverence is fatal to literature. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#literature #reverence

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. ↗

— Plato

#bequeath #children #parents #reverence #riches

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

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

#became #began #biggest #christ #close

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

Greatness is one of the sensations of littleness ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#irreverence #humor

The ninth gift is Reverence. May you appreciate the wonder that you are and the miracle of all creation. ↗

— Charlene Costanzo

#character-building #creation #inspiration #respect #reverence

He’d never really given religion much thought himself. It was just there, one of the basic fundamentals of life and living; Heaven is generally good and one should aspire to end up there, and Hell is decidedly foul and one should generally direct their enemies there. ↗

— T.A. Miles

#enemies #evil #good #heaven #heaven-and-hell