“Let us revere, let us worship, but erect and open-eyed, the highest, not the lowest; the future, not the past!”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.”
Mark Twain
“We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things and yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy for us”
“It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.”
Desiderius Erasmus
“Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books.”
John Updike
“We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talent”
“We're confident that what we're housing was not only legally obtained but ethically presented and reverently displayed.”
Bridget Coughlin
