Quotes About Reverence

The law we broke!—the sin here so awfully revealed!—let these alone be in thy thoughts! I fear! I fear! It may be, that, when we forgot our God,—when we violated our reverence each for the other's soul,—it was thenceforth vain to hope that we could meet hereafter, in an everlasting and pure reunion.

the scarlet letter ceased to be a stigma which attracted the world's scorn and bitterness, and became a type of something to be sorrowed over, and looked upon with awe, yet with reverence too.

It's not pleasant to die on the cross, it's much more pleasant to hear your name whispered in the dark.

I received the proceedings of one of the meetings, in which it seemed that the shape of my head had been the subject of a public discussion, and one of the speakers declared that I had the bump of reverence developed enough for ten priests.

DEAR LORD, forgive me when I demand evidence of your working and power instead of thanking you for all you do. Please open my eyes to be aware of your presence, to sense your nearness, and to see the works of your hand everywhere I look. With all my heart I welcome your presence today, however you choose to reveal yourself to me. And don't let me forget to thank you.

And so Mr. Brown came to be respected even by the clan, because he trod softly on its faith.

When you bow your head to pray—when you're in a jam and you need to ask God for something—are you aware of who you're talking to?

We make our heroes out of clay.

One miracle is just as easy to believe as another.

I love graveyards. To some, it might sound morbid, but there's nothing dark about the natural cycles of life, really.

It is always edifying for mortals to look at a god.

Because we are amorphous we hold that in reverence, thus the blade is swung.

Don't clap too loudly—it's a very old world.

Grownups don't pay it much attention because they can't imagine anything more majestic to a child than their own selves and so confused dependance for reverence.

If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic....Authors arrive at text and subtext in thousands of ways, learning each time they begin anew how to recognize a valuable idea and how to reader the texture that accompanies, reveals or displays it to its best advantage.

If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic.

To fear God simply means to take God seriously, as opposed to taking God casually.

A healthy fear of the Lord keeps us from forgetting who we are and who He is.

Dios merece ser el primero. La oración del reino tiene tanta consideración del Rey, que acude a Él primero.

God commands a wife to respect her husband. This word means to hold in high esteem, to lift up. It's closely connected with the word "reverence." Ladies, what your husband needs and craves from you more than anything else is respect. While you love to hear, "I love you," we men want and need to hear, "I respect you.

Men, you don't have to curse God openly to despise Him. All you need to do is tell Him that you don't think much of Him by giving Him your leftovers.

Fear God in all you do. Honor Him with your heart, thoughts, words, and actions. Seek Him, look to Him, and accept the help He brings your way. Take your life one day at a time. Honor and revere Him today. Fear Him in everything. Demonstrate that reverence through all you do.

Praise for Kingdom

We are happy to have God in our vicinity even though he is not in our midst. We like to have God in general, but we think we don't need God in specific.