Such a reverent mind as Bishop Butler's reproved the curiosity which sought to find out the manner of the atonement.
This custom is intended to show a reverent regard to the Son of God above all other messengers.
The Church Temperance Legion deals with boys, seeking to induce them to keep sober, pure, and reverent from the {62} earliest years of manhood and it endeavors to perpetuate those habits in men.
The necessity for the retable arises from the fact of the reverent usage of the Church, which requires that nothing shall be placed on the Altar but the Eucharistic vessels, the book rest and the book.
The Fifteen Articles, though they did not make the judgments of the Consociations decisive, urged upon individual churches a reverent regard for them.
Unfortunately, among the aroused people, there were many who pressed their zeal beyond the reverent bounds set by these leaders.
Said it made him feel kind of reverent and holy, almost as if he was in Paradise.
The first "that" was emphasized by a brandished but reverent left hand; the second by a derisively pointing right.
On it follow reverent awe of God, whose justice is thereby displayed, and deepened sense in righteous hearts of the folly of trust in anything but Him.
Beside the unveiled mysteries Of life and death go stand, With guarded lips and reverent eyes And pure of heart and hand.
How reverent in our midst she stood, Or knelt in grateful praise!
To greet the sage the reverent crowd Raised suppliant hands and humbly bowed.
With reverent steps he paced around The limits of the holy ground-- And then the mighty saint set forth And took his journey to the north.
Then Vishnu, fain on earth to dwell, Bade the Almighty Sire farewell, And vanished while a reverent crowd Of Gods and saints in worship bowed.
The King with all his nobles by Raised reverent hands and made reply:-- "Welcome, O glorious being!
For faith itself--in God and a spiritual order--had been so wrought into the nature by years of reverent and adoring living that nothing could destroy it.
If there is a lack of harmony and beauty in the whole composition, it is quite compensated for by the evident earnestness of the artist, the gravity of the angels’ demeanor, and the reverent intention which animates the grotesque ensemble.
It has been very intelligible to many a penitent who has been by pardon transformed into a reverent lover of God.
Lifting the hands towards the commandments seems to be a figure for reverent regard, or longing, as one wistfully stretches them out towards some dear person or thing that one would fain draw closer.
Every man carries in his own body reasons enough forreverent gratitude.
An exclamation of reverent wonder and confession of the limitation of human comprehension closes the strophe.
O thou whose reverent feet have found The Master's footprints in thy way, And walked thereon as holy ground, A boon of thee I pray.
And yet they are to be cherished in the family Bible as a treasure worthy of loving gaze and reverent touch.
And unresponsive to my reverent caresses--a new thing to me and a new thing to her; that had not happened before in five and thirty years.
To be able to reach out reverent fingers and only touch the clothes He wore; to look up in His face, and look and look with a love that never wearied,--that was such happiness that Joel was lost to everything else!
But this was meant of particulars: nevertheless even unto the general rules and discourses of policy and government there is due a reverent and reserved handling.
His beard was grey, and of a most reverent equipment, well calculated to excite veneration and respect.
A group of little Negroes came round the strange gentleman, and the smallest knelt down with uncovered heads, in a reverent manner, saying, "Buenos dias Senor.
She kept her self-respect, and challenged thereverent respect of the men who knew her best.
One may say he has all that civilisation has for any human creature; he may reasonably be bored by all departments of life, but there is enough for an eternity of reverent study and adoration in the nearest human face.
Their rites are broad and deep as man, as ancient and reverent as time, as new as dawn.
The more of an artist a man is, the more reverent he becomes about perfecting his thought-forms.
God knows what thoughts went through John Flint's mind; but for me, a great peace stole upon me, mixed with a greater, reverent awe and wonder.
There was in look and tone and manner something so sweet and reverent that we were touched and astonished.
