Quotes About Reverence

Prayer is continual abandonment to God.

We should go into His presence as a child goes to his father. We do it with reverence and godly fear, of course, but we should go with a childlike confidence and simplicity.

We regard prayer no longer as a duty which must be performed, but rather as a privilege which is to be enjoyed, a rare delight that is always revealing some new beauty.

You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.

Some men's prayers need to be cut short at both ends and set on fire in the middle.

Trying to describe what I do in prayer would be like telling the world how I make love to my wife.

If we rely on the Holy Spirit, we shall find that our prayers become more and more inarticulate; and when they are inarticulate, reverence grows deeper and deeper.

All our blasphemies are only little prayers.

Give us an intense distaste for things that displease You and a renewed pleasure in things that bring You honor and magnify Your truth.

As we come closer to Him, we not only "stand all amazed"-we even kneel all amazed!

Surely we may with reverence say that, in a true and deep sense, God Himself is the answer to prayer.

In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust' but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark shall not be taken at par.

Though we cannot by our prayers give God any information yet we must by our prayers give him honor.

Shall I bend low, and in a bondman's key,With bated breath, and whispering humbleness,Say this.

But yesterday the word of Caesar mightHave stood against the world; now lies he there,And none so poor to do him reverence.

If it is true that there is no fear (terror) in love, it is also true that there is no love without (reverent) fear.

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

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

The people who related to God best--Abraham, Moses, David, Isaiah, Jeremiah--treated him with startling familiarity. They talked to God as if he were sitting in a chair beside them, as one might talk to a counselor, a boss, a parent, or a lover. They treated him like a person.

Human life is sacred: this means that each and every human being has been set apart for designation as a being of elevated status and dignity. Each human being must therefore be viewed with reverence and treated with due respect and care, with special attention to preventing any desecration or violation of a human being.

The Bible was treated as trustworthy in a way that other human products were not, because it was not viewed as a human product.

We are not free to do what we want with the Bible. It is sovereign. It must win. Always.

Winnie would never be free of religious thinking, and she couldn't imagine ever wanting to be. She just needed a new schedule for her faith, one whose appointments with the divine were arranged not only through sermons, songs, and scripture, but rather on a walk-in basis with rocks, water, air, blood, space, and time.

She closed her eyes and lifter her face to the