Quotes about Reverence

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.

Theological instruction that does not arouse awe is broken.

It takes grace for me to acknowledge that there is a King and that he is not me.

In the Holy of Holies is the BEST of God's presence!

We must cut through the veils and enter worship in spirit and truth.

The Bible, just as it is, still works. Don't try to explain it. Just accept it. That won't make you a mindless zombie. It just means you are accepting your own human limitations and acknowledging by faith that something bigger than ourselves is happening, someone bigger is behind it, and we have the privilege to be a part of it.

Then Shem and Japheth took a garment and placed it across their shoulders, and walking backward, they covered their father’s nakedness. Their faces were turned away so that they did not see their father’s nakedness.

Then Abram fell facedown, and God said to him,

But Jacob himself went on ahead and bowed to the ground seven times as he approached his brother.

Then Joseph removed his sons from his father’s knees and bowed facedown.

No hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot with arrows—whether man or beast, he must not live.’ Only when the ram’s horn sounds a long blast may they approach the mountain.”

And the LORD replied, “Go down and bring Aaron with you. But the priests and the people must not break through to come up to the LORD, or He will break out against them.”