Fashion was the only law, pleasure the only pursuit, and the splendour of dress and furniture was the only distinction of the citizens of Antioch. The arts of luxury were honoured; the serious and manly virtues were the subject of ridicule; and the contempt for female modesty and reverent age announced the universal corruption of the capital of the East.
The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold.
Leaning on Him, make with reverent meekness His own thy will.
It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright.
Generally, elders are among the more reverent members of the Church, but there is no law prescribing their age.
I honestly think that in order to be a writer you have to learn to be reverent. If not, why are you writing? Why are you here?
True art is reverent imitation of God.
Great souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is over them: only small mean souls are otherwise.
In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October, when the trees are bare to the mild heavens, and the red leaves bestrew the road, and you can feel the breath of winter, morning and evening - no days so calm, so tenderly solemn, and with such a reverent meekness in the air.
He [Jesus] speaks in parables, and though we have approached these parables reverentially all these many years and have heard them expounded as grave and reverent vehicles of holy truth, I suspect that many if not all of them were originally not grave at all but were antic, comic, often more than just a little shocking.
It's hard to be reverent today when directors make films that are not as good. There will be time later, though, when their lesser films are forgotten and just focus on the greatness.
Under reverent, patient care, the wild seed gradually relinquishes its protective husk and entrusts its reproductive life to human hands. (thus) this sacred law and covenant with Mother Earth; Respectful care brings abundance. If you take, you must give back-Return the gift.
Take in everything before you and let your eyes be drenched with beauty, and as you love beauty in a reverent way it becomes a sacrament to you.
Praying is simple. Use the words that you know. You don't have to be eloquent, just sincere and reverent.
If everybody was so reverent of the institute of marriage, how did all the adultery get committed?
Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day.
I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.
The interpretation that makes you ardent and hopeful and active and reverent is the true one.
An unimaginative person can neither be reverent nor kind.
I'm reverent from a distance.
