Noun
The act of venerating, or the state of being venerated; the highest degree of respect and reverence; respect mingled with awe; a feeling or sentimental excited by the dignity, wisdom, or superiority of a person, by sacredness of character, by consecration to sacred services, or by hallowed associations.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted. Immanuel Kant
This... was the religion that I was raised with: veneration for human creativity and the power of ideas. Ray Kurzweil
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us. Antonin Artaud
Any civilization where the main symbol of religious veneration is a tool of execution is a bad place to have children. Charles Stross
The veneration of Mary is inscribed in the very depths of the human heart. Martin Luther
Stop being astounded by the realization that sex is the object of such misunderstanding and of such automatic clumsiness that it implies either a universal loathing or a universal veneration. Philippe Sollers