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.

Here's the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family which is why a child born today of unmarried parents in Sweden has a better chance of growing up in a house with both of his parents than a child born to a married couple in America. Here we revere the couple there they revere the family.

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

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

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

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.

The trick with computers I think is to approach old and new things with the same reverence as you would like your favourite chair and not be seduced by the constant innovation otherwise you never do anything.

Gratitude bestows reverence allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.

A discipline I have observed is an attitude of love and reverence to people.

Self-reverence self-knowledge self-control these three alone lead one to sovereign power.