admiration

quote: Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.

quote: A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.

quote: I have a great deal of respect and admiration for people who put themselves on the line.

quote: Directing has only increased my admiration and respect for what it is that actors do.

quote: I would love to have dinner with Jay-Z and Beyonce. I think we would have a lot to chat about. I like them both so much, and I love them as a couple. I like that they are both at the top of their game - and that they have a mutual respect and admiration for each other.

quote: For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.

quote: The admiration of some men always attracts the attention of others.

quote: A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.

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

quote: Personally, I have a great admiration for stupidity.

quote: No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than
himself, dwells in the breast of man. It is to this hour, and at
all hours, the vivifying influence in man's life.

quote: Season your admiration for a while
With an attent ear. . . .

quote: Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.

quote: The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. . . . The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration . . . because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive contemplative mood.

quote: What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.

quote: Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

quote: Distance is a great promoter of admiration!

quote: A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.

quote: Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

quote: Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.

quote: If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism
of one, go ahead, get married.

quote: Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles When our lives are focused on God, awe and wonder lead us to worship God, filling our inner being with a fullness we would never have thought possible. Awe prepares the way in us for the power of God to transform us and this transformation of our inner attitudes can only take place when awe leads us in turn to wonder, admiration, reverence, surrender, and obedience toward God.

quote: Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles When our lives are focused on God, awe and wonder lead us to worship God, filling our inner being with a fullness we would never have thought possible. Awe prepares the way in us for the power of God to transform us and this transformation of our inner attitudes can only take place when awe leads us in turn to wonder, admiration, reverence, surrender, and obedience toward God. ... James Houston, The Transforming Power of Prayer July 23, 2000 Commemoration of Bridget

quote: Many people not only lose the benefit, but are even the worse for their mortifications [i.e., sacrifices, abstensions], ... because they mistake the whole nature and worth of them: they practice them for their own sakes, as things good in themselves, they think them to be real parts of holiness, and so rest in them and look no further, but grow full of a self-esteem and self-admiration for their own progress in them. This makes them self-sufficient, morose, severe judges of all those that fall short of their mortificat

quote: Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812 Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things; first, upon the richness of the self that was given; and second, upon the depths of the giving. Friend and foe alike are agreed on the question of the character of Jesus Christ... Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus. Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing -- so supreme that

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