reverence - quotes

Albert Schweitzer, 1875-1965

was a Franco-German (Alsatian) theologian, organist, philosopher, and physician

Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe.

Ambrose (Gwinnett) Bierce, 1842-1914

was an US author and satirist

Reverence: the spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man.

( “The Devil's Dictionary”, 1906 )