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Quotes about Reverence

Instinct and study, love and hate; Audacity-reverence. These must mate, And fuse with Jacob's heart, To wrestle with the angel -- Art.
— Herman Melville
We reverence God and we hallow God's name when our life is such that it brings honor to God and attracts others to Him.
— William Barclay
Late on the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset, ..., there flashed upon my mind, unforeseen and unsought, the phrase "Ehrfurcht vor dem Leben" ("reverence for life").
— Albert Schweitzer
Here is the rule: the way you live reveals what you really think about God.
— Edward Welch
Anything that erodes the fear of God will intensify the fear of man.
— Edward Welch
Adoration is caring for God above all else.
— Evelyn Underhill
His was the holiest face I ever saw. My very name turned holy on his tongue. If he had bade me rise and follow to the end of time, I would have gone. If he had bade me die for him, I would have died. When I deserved it least, God gave me most. I think it was the savior's face I saw.
— Frederick Buechner
Thanks to the Spirit, though the priest grows older in years, he becomes younger through ascent to the altar of God where youth is renewed.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
I saw you as another god.
— Margaret Atwood
The height of devotion is reached when reverence and contemplation produce passionate worship, which in turn breaks forth in thanksgiving and praise in word and song.
— Kent Hughes
Thanksgiving is nothing if not a glad and reverent lifting of the heart to God in honor and praise for His goodness.
— J.R. Miller
Don't ever come to church without coming as though it were the first time, as though it could be the best time, and as though it could be the last time.
— Vance Havner