She knelt out of reverence for having read the Meditations of St. Augustine.

Such is the field for exercising our reverence.

Resolved that his wrongs and bereavements in Kansas, occasioned by the violence and brutality of those who were intent on the propagation of slavery in that territory, call for a charitable judgment upon his recent efforts in Virginia to undermine the despotism from which he had suffered, and commend his family to the special sympathy and aid of all who pity suffering and reverence justice.

The existing reverence for Centrality must have been still further stimulated toward the close of the second century B.C., when the Han Emperor Wu Ti ordered the dynastic color changed to yellow -- which symbolized the Center among the traditional Five Directions -- and took 5 as the dynastic number, believing that he would thus place himself, his imperial family, and the nation under the most auspicious influences.

This religion preaches the view of Ahimsa – to live and let live, thereby not harming sentient beings, i. e. uncompromising reverence for all life.

A thorough historical and philosophical study of ahimsa was instrumental in the shaping of Albert Schweitzer's principle of " reverence for life ".

The second scribe slaved over the poem for many years " with great reverence and care to restoration ".

In all other relationships, high reverence was held for elders.

304 – 232 BC ) inscribed on great pillars around his kingdom, the King showed reverence for all life by giving up the slaughtering of animals and many of his subjects followed his example.

The Lyon Tablet preserves his speech on the admittance of Gallic senators, in which he addresses the Senate with reverence but also with criticism for their disdain of these men.

seems to contradict the characterization of the true Christian as one who knows ; but to Clement knowledge vanishes only in that is subsumed by the universal love expressed by the Christian in his reverence for his Creator.

Christian egalitarianism has biblical support: The Apostle Paul calls on husbands and wives to be subject to each other out of reverence for Christ.

These revised symbols were used to instill in the public a new sense of tradition and reverence for the Enlightenment and the Republic.

For instance, they interpret the exhortation to defend one ’ s faith “ with gentleness and reverence ” in 3: 15-16 as a response to Pliny executing Christians for the obstinate manner in which they professed to be Christians.

His music is modern without being modernist, combining a reverence for the great Austro-German lineage of composers with very personal innovations in harmony and orchestration ( showing an awareness of the output of composers such as Debussy and Ravel, whose piano music he was known greatly to admire, along with a knowledge of more recent composers in his own German-speaking realm, such as Schoenberg, Berg, Hindemith, etc .).

The reverence for the Virgin Mary reflected in music shows how deeply influenced and inspired Hildegard of Bingen and her community were by the Virgin Mary and the saints.

The combination of hushed reverence, chromatic harmonies and sexualized imagery in Richard Wagner's late opera Parsifal gave new significance to the grail theme, for the first time associating the grail – now periodically producing blood – directly with female fertility.

There are numerous accounts of surrounding nations of Israel showing fear or reverence for the Israelite God despite their continued polytheistic practices.

It was widely used to show reverence for one's elders, superiors, and especially the Emperor, as well as for religious and cultural objects of worship.

The officially approved form of Islam in Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism, is hostile to any reverence given to historical or religious places of significance for fear that it may give rise to idolatry.

Both religions share a high emphasis on family life, charitable giving, chastity, abstention from alcohol, and a special reverence for, though not worship of, their founding prophet.

The Chaco War had sparked the February revolution, which, in turn, sounded the death knell of the Liberal state and ushered in a revival of Paraguayan nationalism along with a reverence for the dictatorial past.

With this endorsement of custom comes an endorsement of existing governments, because he conceived of the two as complementary: " A regard for liberty, though a laudable passion, ought commonly to be subordinate to a reverence for established government.

Before the late modern era, the abbot was treated with the utmost reverence by the brethren of his house.

He mentions even with reverence the name of Maimonides, whose work he possessed and studied ; but he was more inclined toward the mysticism of Nachmanides.

He did not appear, lest, as he tells us, " he might contend in words ", but instead addressed a letter to the prelates in which he speaks with a strange mixture of freedom, reverence, and charity.

Diana was regarded with great reverence by lower-class citizens and slaves ; slaves could receive asylum in her temples.

Jewish law must be preserved but it is subject to interpretation by those who have mastered it, and the interpretation placed upon it by duly authorized masters in every generation must be accepted with as much reverence as those which were given in previous generations.

The Eighth Council of Toledo ( 653 ) recorded its admiration of his character in these glowing terms: " The extraordinary doctor, the latest ornament of the Catholic Church, the most learned man of the latter ages, always to be named with reverence, Isidore ".

In both instances, Jonah's name is spoken of with praise and reverence by Muhammad.

Both Scripture and Tradition must be accepted and honoured with equal sentiments of devotion and reverence.

Njörðr is often identified with the goddess Nerthus, whose reverence by various Germanic tribes is described by Roman historian Tacitus in his 1st CE century work Germania.

This religious submission of mind and will must be shown in a special way to the authentic magisterium of the Roman Pontiff, even when he is not speaking ex cathedra ; that is, it must be shown so that his supreme magisterium is acknowledged with reverence, the judgments made by him are sincerely adhered to, according to his manifest mind and will.

Writing in the New York Times in 1990, Richard Bernstein noted " The term ' politically correct ,' with its suggestion of Stalinist orthodoxy, is spoken more with irony and disapproval than with reverence.

In the tradition of its leading thinkers Lao Tzu and Zhuangzi, Taoism is comparable with Pantheism, as The Tao is always spoken of with profound religious reverence and respect, similar to the way that Pantheism discusses the " divinity " of the Universe.

I reverence him with holy fear.

Since one is required by Confucian philosophy to show great reverence to one's parents and grandparents, children may also be required to kowtow to their elderly ancestors, particularly on special occasions.

She had a special interest in history, philosophy, and literature, and developed a profound reverence for the German lyric poet and radical political thinker, Heinrich Heine, whose letters she collected.

religio ) " respect for what is sacred, reverence for the gods ," " obligation, the bond between man and the gods ") is derived from the Latin religiō, the ultimate origins of which are obscure.

According to the philologist Max Müller, the root of the English word " religion ", the Latin religio, was originally used to mean only " reverence for God or the gods, careful pondering of divine things, piety " ( which Cicero further derived to mean " diligence ").

Salmon was treated with reverence, which continues until this day.

An open abuse of the deities, to which most people in Rus ' bowed in reverence in those times, triggered widespread indignation.

A religious cockfight, spiritual cockfight or sacred cockfight, is cockfighting in religious or spiritual exercise, ritual, rite, ceremony or dedication which is considered sacred or worthy of spiritual respect or devotion ; or inspiring awe or reverence among believers in a given set of spiritual ideas.

To be Hopi is to strive toward this concept, which involves a state of total reverence and respect for all things, to be at peace with these things, and to live in accordance with the instructions of Maasaw, the Creator or Caretaker of Earth.

As John Africa himself had done, his devotees also changed their surnames to show reverence to Africa, which they regarded as their mother continent.

The change of name was due to the fact that the Quakers, a large colony of whom were among the earliest settlers in Talbot County, having no reverence for saints, persisted in dropping the word saint and calling the river Michaels River, which readily became corrupted into Miles.

" The four last years of the emperor Justin were passed in tranquil obscurity: his conscience was no longer tormented by the remembrance of those duties which he was incapable of discharging ; and his choice was justified by the filial reverence and gratitude of Tiberius.

From the start, Whistler's Mother sparked varying reactions, including parody, ridicule, and reverence, which have continued to today.

For just as temples are held in reverence, so also are sepulchres, and pyramids, and mausoleums, and labyrinths, which are temples of the dead, as the others are sepulchres of the gods.

The attitude of devotion or reverence expressed by genibus nixae or genu nixa, which might also be translated as " on bended knee ," is formulaic in Latin texts and inscriptions.

She and her heckling heralds live near the Gorg's garden, and she gives the Fraggles guidance and advice, which the Fraggles regard with reverence, although they do not worship her.

The name forms part of a famous mantra also known as a " twelve syllable mantra ", which believed to be the earliest mantra from pre-reformation times, pre-dating sectarian divisions in Vaishnavism-( IAST ), it is translated as " Om, reverence to the Lord Vasudeva ".

The Kibbutz Meuchad and Kibbutz Artzi menaced Ben-Gurion's dominance of Yishuv politics in the 1940s, but they failed gaining wide public support in Israeli elections ever since 1949 because of reverence of Stalin's dictatorship which most Israelis denounced.

Even those who had been content to permit the monks ’ worship and do great reverence at their matins, masses and services two days previously were no less happy to pilfer, which is strange, that they could one day think it to be the house of God and the next the house of the Devil – or else they would not have been so ready to have spoiled it.

It is an attempt to show that the same moral principle that ought to direct human life may be perceived to underlie the works and ways of God: goodness in the Deity not being a mere disposition to benevolence but a regard to an order, beauty and harmony, which are not merely relative to our faculties and capacities but real and absolute ; claiming for their own sakes the reverence of all intelligent beings and alone answering to the perfection of the divine ideas.