Clark says he'll never forget working on the home of one America's most revered presidents.

Mary is so revered in Islam.

Tom was revered as a prophet.

Vair, who was to be revered as a Sufi saint, was noticed in a bazaar because of his deferential bearing by a stranger, who, taking him for a slave, approached and asked, "Are you looking for your master?"

Mary is revered in Islam but Muslims don't pray to her.

The leader of the separatists is revered by his followers and reviled by everyone else in his own native region.

Old men and comets are revered for the same reasons: their long beards and their pretensions to predict events.

Pachamama is a goddess of earth and fertility revered by the indigenous peoples of the Andes.

The U.S.-based Museum of the Bible, which holds some of the world’s most revered collections of religious manuscripts, agreed last week to return a rare 10th century gospel book to the Monastery of Theotokos Eikosiphinisa in northern Greece.

When there was room on the ledge outside of the pots and boxes for a cat, the cat was there — in sunny weather — stretched at full length, asleep and blissful, with her furry belly to the sun and a paw curved over her nose. Then that house was complete, and its contentment and peace were made manifest to the world by this symbol, whose testimony is infallible. A home without a cat—and a well-fed, well-petted, and properly revered cat—may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?