Quotes About Awe

The great battle of parenting is not the battle of behavior; it's the battle for what kind of awe will rule children's hearts.

When awe of God has captured your heart, ministry will fill your schedule. You won't need the church to schedule ministry for you; you will approach work, marriage, parenting, extended family, friendships, and community with a ministry mentality.

Here's the reality: most people who are angry with God are angry with him for being God. They're not angry because he has failed to deliver what he promised. They're angry because he has failed to deliver what they have craved, expected, or demanded. When awe of self replaces awe of God, God ceases to be your Lord and is reduced to being your indentured servant.

You're not generally angry because things are in the way of God and his kingdom purposes. You're angry because something or someone has gotten in the way of something you crave, something you think will inspire contentment, satisfaction, or happiness in you. Your heart is desperate to be inspired, and you get mad when your pursuits are blocked. Where you look for awe will fundamentally control the thoughts and emotions of your heart in ways you normally don't even realize.

Developing leaders is not just downloading theological knowledge and ministry skill, but calling people to lead with hearts captured by the awe of God.

It is dangerous to live without your heart being captured by awe of God, because awe of God is quickly replaced by awe of you.

I was wired for awe of God. No other awe satisfies the soul.

When amazing realities of the gospel quit commanding your attention, your awe, and your worship, other things in your life will capture your attention instead.

The myriad of dysfunctions of the human community can be traced to this one thing: awe. When we replace vertical awe of God with awe of self, bad things happen in the horizontal community.

3. We replace vertical awe with horizontal addiction.

gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. G. K. CHESTERTON

Prayer is, in itself, a recognition that something exists in the world that is greater and more glorious than you. Prayer is meant to remind you that your little world, filled with your little plans, is not ultimate. Prayer teaches you that there is a greater glory than any glory that you could ever want for yourself. Prayer is meant to help you remember that the deepest, most important motivation for every person who has ever taken a breath is the awe of God.

Either your heart lives in a fundamental, life-shaping awe of the horizontal, physical, created world ("things that are on the earth"), or your heart lives in a foundational vertical awe of God, his work, his grace, and his kingdom. If your

Theological instruction that does not arouse awe is broken.

Horizontal awe is meant to do one thing: stimulate vertical

It's only when my heart is captured by the awe of God that I will view my identity rightly.

Perhaps in ways that you have never come close to considering, your dissatisfaction is an awe problem.

Let all the earth fear the Lord; let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him! PSALM 33:8

When amazing realities of the gospel quit commanding your attention, your awe, and your worship, other things in your life will capture your attention instead. When you quit celebrating grace, you begin to forget how much you need grace, and when you forget how much you need grace, you quit seeking the rescue and strength that only grace can give. This means you begin to see yourself as more righteous, strong, and wise than you actually are, and in so doing, you set yourself up for trouble.

We need to do everything we can to put the glory of God and his grace before our children so that the awe of God would rule over their hearts.

The war that rages in all our hearts is a war between the awe of God and the awe of self. The war really does somehow turn all of us into glory thieves. Perhaps we commit vertical larceny much more than we realize. Perhaps we quest for personal glory more than we think. Perhaps we take credit for what only God can do more often than we think we do. Perhaps, in subtle idolatry, we give credit to places and things when it really belongs to God.

It's so easy to load life onto your shoulders and be more motivated by low-grade anxiety than by divine awe.

The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder. G. K. CHESTERTON

When we replace vertical awe of God with awe of self, bad things happen in the horizontal community.