Quotes about Reverence

When the people of God are not told the works of God, they lose the wonder of God, and everyone does that which is right in his or her own eyes.

When God is recognized for the infinitely holy being that He is, you don't stand around questioning His decisions.

true encounter with the God of the universe makes me feel gladly small, perfectly puny, and happily so, in my assigned place and actual size! A true experience of eternity leaves us feeling, as C. S. Lewis said, "the infinite relief of having for once got rid of all the silly nonsense about your own dignity which has made you restless and unhappy all your life."28

But be warned! The book is an inconceivably impressive sharpening of the commandment 'Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain'.

Creation is grace: a statement at which we should like best to pause in reverence, fear and gratitude. God does not grudge the existence of the reality distinct from Himself; He does not grudge it its own reality, nature and freedom.

No man can adequately reach and explain a single word of God with all his words.

The cross of Christ is the response of God to men for belittling His name.

Men sunk in the greatest darkness imaginable retain some sense and awe of the Deity.

Humility, a sense of reverence before the sons of heaven - of all the prizes that a mortal man might win, these, I say, are wisest; these are best.

It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death hallows him anew to us; as if life were not sacred too.

The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.

Men reverence one another, not yet God.