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Quotes about Honor

  • I beg you to show the greatest possible reverence and honor for the most holy Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom all things, whether on earth or in heaven, have been brought to peace and reconciled with Almighty God
  • The person who lives free of blame, does what is right, and speaks the truth sincerely; who does no damage with their talk, does no harm to a friend, doesn’t insult a neighbor; someone who despises those who act wickedly, but who honors those who honor the Lord; someone who keeps their promise even when it hurts. — Psalm 15:2-4
  • You should not honor men more than truth.
  • How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.
  • These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. They worship me in vain; their teachings are but rules taught by men. — Matthew 15:8-9
  • The greatest honor God can do a soul is not give it much; but to ask much of it.
  • Speak only that which will bring you honor.
  • How I loved the feasts!.... I especially loved the processions in honor of the Blessed Sacrament. What a joy it was for me to throw flowers beneath the feet of God!... I was never so happy as when I saw my roses touch the sacred Monstrance.
  • It is best to live with honor for just a day than with dishonor for many decades; better a short lived celestial swan than a century-lived crow.
  • Man's obsession to add to his wealth and honor is the chief source of his misery.
  • The number of those endowed with human life is as small as the amount of earth one can place on a fingernail. Life as a human being is hard to sustain--as hard as it is for the dew to remain on the grass. But it is better to live a single day with honor than to live to 120 and die in disgrace.
  • Die in battle. Do not come back alive. Winning or dying with honor, do not be scared of dying.
  • Just as a person is commanded to honor and revere his father, so he is under an obligation to honor and revere his teacher, even to a greater extent than his father; for his father gave him life in this world, while his teacher instructs him in wisdom, secures for him life in the world to come.
  • The greatest honor we can give Almighty God is to live gladly because of the knowledge of his love.
  • I am not this body. I am in this body, and this is part of my incarnation and I honor it but that isn't who I am.
  • When you want to be honored by others, you learn to honor them first.
  • Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul?
  • These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. They worship me in vain; their teachings are but rules taught by men. — Matthew 15:8-9
  • My belief is that I wasn't born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that.
  • The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
  • Where choice is set between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence ... I prefer to use arms in defense of honor rather than remain the vile witness of dishonor.
  • Worthy persons deserve to be called so because they are not carried away by the eight winds: prosperity, decline, disgrace, honor, praise, censure, suffering, and pleasure. They are neither elated by prosperity nor grieved by decline. The heavenly gods will surely protect one who is unbending before the eight winds.
  • You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
  • God, of thy goodness, give me Thyself; for Thou art enough for me, and I can ask for nothing less that can be full honor to Thee. And if I ask anything that is less, ever Shall I be in want, for only in Thee have I all.
  • And in any preaching you do, admonish the people concerning repentance, and that nobody can be saved except he who receives the most holy Body and Blood of our Lord. And when It is sacrificed on the altar by the priest or borne anywhere, let all the people on bended knees render praise, glory and honor to the True and Living Lord God.