Quotes about Awe

The war that rages in all our hearts is a war between the awe of God and the awe of self. The war really does somehow turn all of us into glory thieves. Perhaps we commit vertical larceny much more than we realize. Perhaps we quest for personal glory more than we think. Perhaps we take credit for what only God can do more often than we think we do. Perhaps, in subtle idolatry, we give credit to places and things when it really belongs to God.

It's so easy to load life onto your shoulders and be more motivated by low-grade anxiety than by divine awe.

The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder. G. K. CHESTERTON

When we replace vertical awe of God with awe of self, bad things happen in the horizontal community.

When awe of God has captured your heart, ministry will fill your schedule.

in the heart of a sinner, awe of God is very quickly replaced by awe of self.

No awesome thing in creation was meant to give you what only the Creator is able to give. Every awesome thing in creation is designed to point you to the One who alone is worthy of capturing and controlling the awe of your searching and hungry heart.

Think of how strange the colours and sights of the world would be for a blind man abruptly made to see or a man deaf from birth hearing the playing of a hundred flutes

Our experiences of God matter—those sacred moments that defy the very rational capabilities we are so keen to rely on.

We do not comprehend but can only trust that our heavens, as it was for the psalmist, are declaring for us the glory of God. And that glory is as far from our understanding as are the distant galaxies that swirl about in the infinite expanses of the universe.

I have found that the prompts to adjusting my understanding of God are all around me—literally. The very heavens are shouting them, and the word they are shouting most clearly is "mystery.

And he was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven!”