Quotes About Reverence

Ancestors who had held themselves higher than God, and had been brought lower than man.

Take time in the inner chamber to bow down and worship; and wait on Him until He unveils Himself, and takes possession of you, and goes out with you to show how a man can live and walk in abiding fellowship with an unseen Lord.

Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.

It is not that God is the spectator and sharer of our present life, howsoever important that is; but rather that we are the reverent listeners and participants in God's action in the sacred story, the history of the Christ on earth.

The only way is by mortifying our own wills which are always obtruding themselves. And the only way to do this is by letting Christ alone reign in our hearts, by surrendering our wills completely to him, by living in fellowship with Jesus and by following him. Then we can pray that his will may be done

The Bible's message is that you matter to God. Our response is that God should matter to us.

Let us not question whether God is there; let us praise Him that He is there.

If we are to be blessed, we must pursue the Giver of blessings.

I like my human experience served up with a little silence and restraint. Silence makes experience go further and, when it does die, gives it that dignity common to a thing one had touched and not ravished.

An interesting note to this is, how a movie star projected onto the big screen is instantly adored and revered. This phenomenon works in reverse. Those who are held in high esteem are given gigantic proportions. Those who are given gigantic proportions are held in high esteem.

The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.

If we perceived life with reverence, we would stand in awe at the experience of physical life and walk the earth in a very deep sense of gratitude.

If you strive to become a good human being with the qualities of generosity, humility and having reverence for life...just maybe you'll become a great musician.

...the moving spirit of militancy is deep and abiding reverence for human life.

Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.

My body is a temple not just any boy gets to worship at.

I just wouldn't want it to be less special, after we do it. I want it to always be a sacred thing, not something to take for granted because everybody else does it, or because we've done it before. I suppose anything can become ordinary or commonplace if you do it enough times, but my hope is that this never is.

There is no cruelty in regard for God's honour.

W. S. Plumer said, "We never see sin aright until we see it as against God...All sin is against God in this sense: that it is His law that is broken, His authority that is despised, His government that is set at naught...Pharaoh and Balaam, Saul and Judas each said, 'I have sinned'; but the returning prodigal said, 'I have sinned against heaven and before thee'; and David said, 'Against Thee, Thee only have I sinned.

We cannot separate trust in God from the fear of God. We will trust Him only to the extent that we genuinely stand in awe of Him.

This is devotion to God - the fear of God, which is an attitude of reverence and awe, veneration, and honor toward Him, coupled with an apprehension deep within our souls of the love of God for us, demonstrated preeminently in Christ's atoning death. These two attitudes complement and reinforce each other, producing within our souls an intense desire for this One who is so awesome in His glory and majesty, yet so condescending in His love and mercy.

How futile and even arrogant for us to seek to determine what God is doing in a particular event or circumstance.

I believe one of our problems in dealing with this subject is that we tend to view the interaction between God and man on the same level as the interaction between man and man.

The sovereignty of God is asserted, either expressly or implicitly, on almost every page of the Bible.