For to righteous homes belongs a fair-childrened lot forever; but old Irreverence is sure to beget Irreverence, springing up fresh among evil men, when the numbered hour arrives.
Now while we are called upon to be loyal to God, there is a sense in which we may venture without irreverence to say that He may be expected to be faithful to us.
But his "gorge rose at the nonsense and stuff of it," while through Helen ran a cold shudder of disgust at the familiarity and irreverence of the little spiritual prig.
He says irreverence is lack of respect for Vishnu, and Brahma, and Chrishna, and his other gods, and for his sacred cattle, and for his temples and the things within them.
There will beirreverence no longer, because I will not allow it.
The quality or condition ofirreverence toward God and sacred things.
This is all unfortunate, because it makes it difficult for students equipped with only a low grade of mentality to find out what Irreverence really is.
Supposed to have been first introduced by Archbishop Laud as a protection of the Altar against the lawlessness and irreverence of the Puritans.
More unfortunate still was the encouragement to sacrilegious irreverence given by the personal conduct of the Protector, who pulled down one chapel and began to lay hands on another in order to build himself a new palace.
I recognize in this insult and irreverence only the fault of your immediate progenitors.
What was meant by this ceremony the reader may imagine who has already gathered some idea of the reckless irreverence of Roaring Camp.
The quality of being impious; want of piety; irreverence toward the Supreme Being; ungodliness; wickedness.
There was no irreverence in the thought; the irreverence is on the part of any profane reader who forges the Creator's endorsement to that good old rule and simple plan which was, is, and ever shall be, the outcome of Individualism.
First let me say that if there should seem to be the faintest tinge of irreverence in aught I write, I tell my story badly.
The book appeared under the Regency, and bears the imprint of it in the licentiousness of the descriptions and the witty irreverence of the criticisms.
As early as then little Arouet, who was weak and in delicate health, but withal of a very lively intelligence, displayed a freedom of thought and a tendency of irreverence which already disquieted and angered his masters.
Reading, writing, and ciphering are great things, but they are powerless to overcome the rudeness and irreverence of our people.
Displeasing as is the presence of most of the English-speaking tourists one meets in Rome, there are two places where they delight to congregate, which yet have charms for me that not even Cockney vulgarity or Yankee irreverence can destroy.
But the signs ofirreverence and neglect are continually before us.
The authorities were lukewarm, the services were dead and unattractive, and all manner of irreverence was seen there daily.
Now it would savor of irreverence towards a superior, if one were to offer him that which properly belongs to his inferior.
And though this implicit temptation would seem to arise from presumption or indiscretion, yet the very fact that a man behaves presumptuously and without due care in matters relating to God implies irreverence towards Him.
Wherefore whatever pertains directly to irreverence for God is opposed to religion.
Now it is an irreverence to God to call Him to witness to a falsehood, because by so doing one implies either that God ignores the truth or that He is willing to bear witness to a falsehood.
Violation here means any kind of irreverence or dishonor.
Therefore any injury inflicted on the Christian people, for instance that unbelievers should be put in authority over it, is an irreverence for a sacred thing, and is reasonably called a sacrilege.
But, as regards the end, it is more contrary to religion than the temptation of God, since it implies greater irreverencefor God, as stated.
Hence by an extension of the term, whatever savors of irreverence for the sovereign, such as disputing his judgment, and questioning whether one ought to follow it, is called sacrilege by a kind of likeness.
Consequently it belongs to irreligion that, through doubtful faith, a man does things indicative of irreverence towards God.
Therefore whatever pertains to irreverence for sacred things is an injury to God, and comes under the head of sacrilege.
Such are the vices which pertain to contempt or irreverence for God and holy things.
Now it is evident that to tempt a person pertains to irreverence for him: since no one presumes to tempt one of whose excellence he is sure.
But it would be presumption to be reverent, if it could be called reverence, since it would fall into greater and more true irreverence, that is, into irreverenceof Nature and of Truth, as will be seen in the sequel.
Irreverent expresses privation, not reverent expresses negation; and, therefore, irreverence is to disavow the due submission by a manifest sign.
Irreverence or disrespect is a profanation, a sacrilege.
He shows irreverence for God's presence and contempt for His friendship; ingratitude for His goodness and supreme indifference for the penalty that follows his sin as surely as the shadow follows its object.
