Definition of Reverence

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Reverence

Profound respect and esteem mingled with fear and affection, as for a holy being or place; the disposition to revere; veneration.

The act of revering; a token of respect or veneration; an obeisance.

That which deserves or exacts manifestations of reverence; reverend character; dignity; state.

A person entitled to be revered; -- a title applied to priests or other ministers with the pronouns his or your; sometimes poetically to a father.

To regard or treat with reverence; to regard with respect and affection mingled with fear; to venerate.

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Reverence Quotations

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.
Socrates

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
Henry David Thoreau

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
Aristotle

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
Aristotle

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

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
John Adams

Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments.
Thomas Merton

Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.
Frank Lloyd Wright

The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
Swami Vivekananda

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.
Albert Schweitzer

Reverence Translations

reverence in German is Ehrfurcht
reverence in Latin is veneratio, saluto
reverence in Spanish is reverencia

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