Quotes About Reverence

We don't get to decide who God is.

It is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do: good Christians content themselves with His will revealed in His Word.

God is serious about how we worship Him, and we must be serious about it, too.

Men of God are those who walk in the fear of the Lord.

Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.

As we begin to face up to the holiness of God, our lives resound with that very same anthem, here and now upon the earth.

The failure of modern evangelicalism is the failure to understand the holiness of God.

Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.

It is one thing to fear God as threatening, with a holy reverence, and another to be afraid of the evil threatened.

My arms are too short to box with God.

May each one of us glorify the Lord with the soul of Mary and rejoice in God with the spirit of Mary

Of Orson Welles: It's like meeting God without dying.

The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing.

We are afraid that if we stop and really look at God in his Word, we might discover that he evokes greater awe and demands deeper worship than we are ready to give him.

Inspiration comes only to those who seek it with humility toward their own achievements and reverence toward the achievements of God.

God loves us; we need only to summon up the humility to allow ourselves to be loved.

Be careful how you talk about God. He's the only God we have. If you let him go he won't come back. He won't even look back over his shoulder. And then what will you do?

The Bible is not God, nor is it a substitute for God, and to treat it as if it were God or a surrogate of God is to treat it in the very way that it itself condemns over and over again.

Churches that depart from the Word will soon find that God has departed from them.

If you come to worship for any reason other that the joy and pleasure and satisfaction that are to be found in God, you dishonor Him...God's greatest delight is your delight in Him.

If you aren't constantly astonished at God's grace in your solitude, there's no way it can happen in public.

To me the Bible is not God, but it is God's voice, and I do not hear it without awe

One should be embarrassed to speak of God in the third person.