Quotes about Honor

Honor is due to God and to persons of great excellence as a sign of attestation of excellence already existing; not that honor makes them excellent.

PSEUDO-CHRYSOSTOM. But regard must be had to this, after what sort each man fills his seat; for not the seat makes the Priest, but the Priest the seat; the place does not consecrate the man, but the man the place. A wicked Priest derives guilt and not honour from his Priesthood.

ORIGEN. For if in an earthly kingdom they are thought to be in honour who sit with the king, no wonder if a woman with womanish simplicity or want of experience conceived that she might ask such things, and that the brethren themselves being not perfect, and having no more lofty thoughts concerning Christ's kingdom, conceived such things concerning those who shall sit with Jesus.

With the tears a Land hath shed Their graves should ever be green.

Oh Lord, how heavy thy honor is to bear.

Our children need to remember to love each other, how to honor each other, their parents, God, and their neighbors.

Neither do I think that I ever put any dishonour upon you.

I confess to your Charity that I have learned to yield this respect and honour only to the canonical books of Scripture: of these alone do I most firmly believe that the authors were completely free from error. And if in these writings I am perplexed by anything which appears to me opposed to truth, I do not hesitate to suppose that either the manuscript is faulty, or the translator has not caught the meaning of what was said, or I myself have failed to understand it (Ibid., 82.1.3).

The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better.

Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

The carpenter's daughter has won a name for herself, and deserved to win it