God himself, with reverence be it spoken, is not an absolute but a limited monarch, limited by the rule which infinite wisdom prescribes to infinite power.
At the beginning, Lincoln was so inexperienced he had reverence for military expertise, not realizing that there wasn't any military expertise, that the most anybody had commanded up to that point had been somebody, some troops in the Mexican War, and it had been years ago.
We have had, alas, and still have, the doubtful habit of reverence. Above all, we respect things as they are.
I guess I was raised in a household with a lot of reverence for the physical sanctity of books. You didn't destroy books.
I see the day in our own lifetime that reverence for the natural systems, the oceans, the rainforests, the soil, the grasslands, and all other living things will be so strong that no narrow ideology based upon politics or economics will overcome it.
I learned to cross the threshold of my studio with reverence, as though I were entering a shrine set apart for me to become co-creator with the Universal Thinker of all things.
Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence.
Dominique as Gail looks at her ". . . there is a stage of worship which makes the worshiper himself an object of reverence. "
The other side of reverence is loathing.
I have a deep reverence for everything that is alive, a reverence for life itself.
In America, much foreign policy seems contrived to be an exercise in political theory with no attention to history whatsoever. Yet there's a great reverence for history - though it's history as thumb-sucking, security blanket-nibbling self-congratulation.
Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external.
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.
Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression.
Let a man use great reverence and manners to himself.
God has such a deep reverence for our freedom that he'd rather let us freely go to Hell than be compelled to go to Heaven.
Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.
When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
Your Reverence, I do not hate any man in this world enough to inflict the results of my prayers upon him.
The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible.