Quotes about Reverence

Don't take the holiness of God lightly, for it is the very essence of His character.

When you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans." MATTHEW 6:7 NIV

In many homes and among so-called educated people—it has become fashionable to joke about the Bible and to regard it more as a dust-catcher than as the living Word of God.

If I had it to do over again, I'd spend more time in meditation and prayer and just telling the Lord how much I love Him.

One can approach the Bible with a cold, rationalistic attitude, or one can do so with reverence and the desire to hear God speak.

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap - let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.

But I am unwilling to utter all that may occur to those who think of it, yet cannot be spoken without irreverence.

Only when we are captured by an overwhelming sense of awe and reverence in the presence of God, will we begin to worship God in spirit and in truth.

We betray our modern arrogance and forget the place of mystery in God's dealing with us.

To find oneself living in an age of doubt is not such a curse. There is a kind of reverence in undertaking the quest for truth, even before the first scrap has been found.

The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.

The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence.