The veneration of Mary is inscribed in the very depths of the human heart. Martin Luther
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. George Jean Nathan
The veneration of mighty invisible beings, which was extorted from helpless man through natural fear rooted in the sense of his impotence ... Immanuel Kant
Westminster Review – a man, who although, through failing health and failing voice, he had virtually passed out of public life, yet retained to the last the affectionate veneration of the Canadian people as no other man of the time can be said to have done. Alexander Mackenzie
All which relates to the overspreading of the Greek Empire with Monks and Nuns, who placed holiness in abstinence from marriage; and to the invocation of saints and veneration of their relics, and such like superstitions, which these men introduced in the fourth and fifth centuries. Isaac Newton
This was the first step made in the Christian religion towards the veneration of the Martyrs: and tho it did not yet amount to an unlawful worship; yet it disposed the Christians towards such a further veneration of the dead, as in a short time ended in the invocation of Saints. Isaac Newton