Veneration, Venerability Quotes

I have always been a friend to hero-worship; it is the only rational one, and has always been in use amongst civilized people - the worship of spirits is synonymous with barbarism - it is mere fetish. ... There is something philosophic in the worship of the heroes of the human race.

Success! to thee, as to a God, men bend the knee.

The veneration of Mary is inscribed in the very depths of the human heart

Mix a little mystery with everything, for mystery arouses veneration.

Respected, I almost want to be revered, that's what I'm chasing.

America has been the country of my fond election from the age of thirteen, when I first saw it. I had the honour to hoist with my own hands the flag of freedom, the first time it was displayed, on the Delaware; and I have attended it with veneration ever since on the ocean.

Martyrs - those killed because of their Catholic faith - can be beatified even if they don't perform a miracle. However, all beatified individuals must stage a certifiable miracle before being made a saint.

Dear and most respected bookcase! I welcome your existence, which has for over one hundred years been devoted to the radiant ideals of goodness and justice.

Not he that adorns but he that adores makes a divinity.

When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life.

To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.

I was summoned by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love.

If to be venerated for benevolence, if to be admired for talents, if to be esteemed for patriotism, if to be beloved for philanthropy, can gratify the human mind, you must have the pleasing consolation to know that you have not lived in vain. And I flatter myself that it will not be ranked among the least grateful occurrences of your life to be assured that, so long as I retain my memory, you will be thought on with respect, veneration, and affection by your sincere friend.

To adore the conqueror, who now beholds Cherub and seraph rolling in the flood.

Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.

My own veneration for other faiths is the same as that for my own faith; therefore no thought of conversion is possible

Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest.

To afford the President the greatest deference and respect should be a gratification to any citizen.

Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.

Oh good gray head which all men knew!

Don't express your ideas too clearly. Most people think little of what they understand, and venerate what they do not.

The Saracens … since they hold the temple in great veneration, may come there as often as they choose in the character of pilgrims, to worship according to their custom, and … we shall henceforth permit them to come, however, only as many as we may choose to allow, and without arms, nor are they to dwell in the city, but outside, and as soon as they have paid their devotions they are to depart.

We adore, we invoke, we seek to appease, only that which we fear.

Venerate the martyrs, praise, love, proclaim, honor them. But worship the God of the martyrs.