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... We are in a system that doesn't give a rap about sacredness.

Science enhances the moral value of life, because it furthers a love of truth and reverence—love of ...

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Max PlanckWhere is Science Going?

There is also a dimension of patience which links it to a special reverence for life. Patience is a ...

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The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold. 69 L

My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in...

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The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, be...

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I must be able to say, 'Percival, a ridiculous name'. At the same time let me tell you, men and wome...

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We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. And this has ...

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Wendell BerryThe Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

Carrying little Kunta in his strong arms, he walked to the edge of the village, lifted his baby up w...

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Alex HaleyRoots: The Saga of an American Family

I honestly think in order to be a writer, you have to learn to be reverent. If not, why are you writ...

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Anne LamottBird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

And because she worshipped joy, Kira seldom laughed and did not go to see comedies in theaters. And ...

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Why "revere" the unknowable? Why not find out what it is?

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Barbara EhrenreichLiving with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything

Authentic faith leads us to treat others with unconditional seriousness and to a loving reverence fo...

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Brennan ManningThe Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled

I thought I saw how stories of this kind could steal past a certain inhibition which had paralysed m...

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I painlessly came to realize that the reverence I felt for the holiness of life is not ever likely t...

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Until we consider animal life to be worthy of the consideration and reverence we bestow upon old boo...

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Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night fr...

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Henry BestonThe Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod

In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagvat Geeta...

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Never wade through the pretty ripples of perpetually flowing rivers, until you have looked at their ...

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HesiodHesiod: The Works and Days/Theogony/The Shield of Herakles