Quotes About Reverence

You know how it is when two souls meet in a burst of ecstatic volubility, with hearts tickling to hear and to tell, to know everything, to reveal everything, the shared reverence for the other's otherness, a feeling of solitude radiantly snapped by full *contact* - all that?

All names of God remain hallowed because they have been used not only to speak of God but also to speak to him.

Injury is done to the Word of God when, in the same sermon, an equal or larger amount of time is devoted to indulgences than to the Word.

And the Son is ordered to demand this authority so that He might actually show reverence toward the Father and His inexpressible humility.

No one can worthily speak or hear any Scripture, unless he is touched in conformity with it, so that he feels inwardly what he hears and says outwardly and says, "Ah, this is true!

True reverence is more than a transient feeling. It involves being ever mindful of God's presence and honoring Christ by being "temple-appropriate" in everything you do.

Daily confession:: I LOVE JESUS CHRIST onrepeat

That love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance. Not a bandage for dirty sores. But they don't know it. Those who speak of love most promiscuously are the ones who've never felt it. They make some sort of feeble stew out of sympathy, compassion, comtempt, and general indiference, and they call it love. Once you've felt what it means to love as you and I know it - the total passion for the total height - you are unable of anything else.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

To love another person is to see the face of God.

Esteem your friends, revere your teachers, honor your parents, regard your supporters.

We're the only two people here!' 'That's not the point. It is still a library. If you are in a cathedral, you are quiet because you are in a cathedral, not because other people are there. It's the same with a library.

As a writer of worship songs, I have a hunger to write deep songs of passionate reverence to God. Yet I'm aware I cannot sing before I have seen. All worship is a response to a revelation--it's only as we breathe in more of the wonders of God that we can breathe out a fuller response to Him....the key to a life of passionate and powerful worship comes from seeing God.

One cannot be an American patriot without reverence for the nation's enabling documents. One cannot be an American conservative without regard for the American tradition of liberty those charters inaugurated.

the more we see of God's glory in his works the more we shall desire to see.

The tremendous judgments of God, executed on those that are daringly profane and atheistical, are intended as warnings to those who profess religion to take heed of every thing that has the least appearance of, or tendency towards, profaneness or atheism. Even

It is a great affront to God to jest with sacred things, particularly to make sport with the word and ordinances of God, or to treat them with lightness

The undutiful behaviour of children towards their parents is a very great provocation to God our common Father; and, if men do not punish it, he will.

In divine things we must not covet to know more than God would have us know; and he has allowed us as much as is good for us.

Every thing we honour the holy God with must be pure and carefully kept from all pollution.

The glorifying of God's name, as it ought to be our first petition (it is so in the Lord's prayer), so it ought to be our great plea

Man is created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord, and by this means to save his soul. The other things on the face of the earth are created for man to help him in attaining the end for which he is created. Hence, man is to make use of them in as far as they help him in the attainment of his end, and he must rid himself of them in as far as they prove a hindrance to him.