Quotes about Reverence

Whatever a man prefers to God, that he makes a god to himself.

One does not cross-examine a saint.

A creature so beautiful that God would have preferred her to the Virgin and have chosen her for his mother and have wished to be born of her if she had been in existence when he was made man!

To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love.

Because God created the Natural - invented it out of His love and artistry - it demands our reverence.

We have grown so accustomed to the idea of divine love...that we no longer sense the awe that God's coming should awaken in us.

Some people say I would love to take a selfie with Moses. Do you understand the gap between Moses and God?

A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the Universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths.

there is no deeper religious feeling than the feeling for the natural world. I wouldn't separate the world of nature from the religious instinct...I would not even object to saying that the sense of awe before the grandeur of nature is itself a religious experience.

It does not become us to be so curious and inquisitive in these Things which the Supreme Creator seems to have kept for his own Knowledge: For since he has not been pleased to make any farther Discovery or Revelation of them, it seems little better than presumption to make any inquiry into that which he has thought fit to hide. But these Gentlemen must be told

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

I have given up reading any book outside the Bible for proof of its inspiration. This blessed Book is gripping my inner consciousness more and more, and is compelling my obeisance to what must.