a reverence QUOTES

1 " Cultivate an intellectual habit of subordinating one's opinions and wishes to objective evidence and a reverence for things as they really are. "

― , The Art of Scientific Investigation

2 " We foster personal meaning out of life by exulting in all of nature, exhibiting a reverence for people, animals, plants, and by expressing compassion and sympathy for the entire community of life. "

― , Dead Toad Scrolls

― Larry Dossey , Recovering the Soul: A Scientific and Spiritual Approach

4 " But there is no such being as an ordinary man or woman if by ordinary you mean what so many people mean: negligible. Each human being is so tremendous that he or she merits a reverence that is really religious. For each is a creation of God; each a mirror of Divinity; each a feature or a facet on the Face of Christ; each an object of constant care and concern to the Trinity. There is nothing ordinary in the sense that so many of us use that word, about any human being. "

― M. Raymond

5 " There's a rebel lying deep in my soul. Anytime anybody tells me the trend is such and such, I go the opposite direction. I hate the idea of trends. I hate imitation; I have a reverence for individuality. "

― , Wild Open Spaces: Why We Love Westerns

6 " If now in some ways I drink too much, it’s not that I lack a reverence for the world. "

― Sheila Heti , How Should a Person Be?

7 " Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility. "

8 " I really believe in science. It is a faith. It is a reverence akin to religion. But as we always say, it's different from religion in that, as near as we can tell, it exists outside of us. It has an objective quality, the process of science. "

9 " Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life. "