21 Metaphors for reverence

The reverence that I ever bare to you, Sir, then to my Uncle, with whom 't had been but sawciness t' have been so rough Egre.

This reverence, this deep, abiding religious feeling, is the only link which binds us to the Infinite.

Reverence is an ennobling sentiment; it is felt to be degrading only by the vulgar mind, which would escape the sense of its own littleness by elevating itself into an antagonist of what is above it.

Is this hypothesis so ridiculous because it is the oldest? If Lessing abandoned the ranks of the deists by his recognition of the fact that the positive religions contain truth in a gradual process of purification, by his free criticism, on the other hand, he broke with the orthodox, whose idolatrous reverence for the Bible was to him an abomination.

Reverence is creative of hope; nay, a more definite emphasis can be given to the assertion; reverence is a constituent of hope.

The following sentences are deficient in perspicuity: "Reverence is the veneration paid to superior sanctity, intermixed with a certain degree of awe.

The abject reverence of their attitudes, the stand of flaming and guttering candles, the worship and kissing of the rough wet stones, the pious drinking of the cistern's water as they came awaya few pausing to buy some "blest" token of their visit at the adjacent shopand the solemn silence that reigned over all, were the chief features that made the scene one from which we were only too glad to turn away.

'Well, your reverence, you see, it was a good road then, but the last time I heard of a car going that way was last February.'

Their reverence for the dead is probably not very great, as even a relative of the deceased will sell the skull or skeleton for a small consideration, on condition of the matter being kept a secret. SUPERSTITIONS.

Our reverence is a great deal wider, if it is less intense.

I will all but agree with the wise man who said that reverence is the root of all virtues.

His reverence for Comte was the result of his intellectual conviction that in his altruistic teaching was to be found the only remedy for the wrongs and sufferings of the world.

Reverence for tradition has always been a prominent Chinese characteristic in respect of both ethics and politics.

Sir- (or Save-) Reverence is an old and very common colloquialism.

They were, so it has been said, of the seed of man; but, being squat and hairy like to the beasts; they praised all beastly things, and bestiality was shown reverence among them, so far as reverence was theirs to show.

'I'd cut the livers out of the likes of them.' 'Now will you mind what you're sayin', and the priest listenin' to you?' 'Your reverence, will the child be always a Protestant?

The reverence of the Convention itself is a mere political pantomime.

Why, reverence is the very clue to fruitful, practical living.

But where is there room in her for the wondering admiration, the loving reverence, which would make an attempt to win her an aspiration?

" The reverence of the Indians for the memory of their departed friends, and their dutiful attention in visiting and making offerings to the Great Spirit, over their last resting-places, is an example worthy of imitation among their more enlightened brethren.

Whenever we are beset by perils, thy reverence is always our refuge; for this reason it is that we solicit a boon from thee; as thou ever grantest the boon solicited (of thee).

21 Metaphors for  reverence