reverence quotes

His fellow creatures are still objects of reverence and love, though their basenesses are plainer to no eye than to his. To reconcile these contradictions is the task of all good men.

-Thomas Carlyle
  Goethe, vol.4,'Introduction to German Romance'.

Some men look at Constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the Ark of the Covenant too sacred to be touched.

-Thomas Jefferson
  Letter to Samuel Kercheval,12  Jul.

Hatless, I take off My cycle-clips in awkward reverence.

- Philip Arthur Larkin
  'Church Going'.

Just a little more reverence, please, and not so much astonishment.

- Sir (Harold) MalcolmWatts Sargent
Attributed, admonishing a choir singing Handel's'For Unto Us a Child is Born'.

Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before.

-Tennyson
  In Memoriam A.H.H., prologue, l.25^8.

Dear Lord and Father of mankind, Forgive our foolish ways! Re-clothe us in our rightful mind, In purer lives thy service find, In deeper reverence praise

-John Greenleaf Whittier
  'The Brewing of Soma'.