Quotes about Reverence
Man should tremble, the world should vibrate, all heaven should be deeply moved when the Son of God appears on the altar in the hands of the priest.
— St. Francis Of Assisi
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
— Aristotle
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.
— Albert Schweitzer
Whatever a man prefers to God, that he makes a god to himself.
— St. Cyprian
One does not cross-examine a saint.
— Victor Hugo
A creature so beautiful that God would have preferred her to the Virgin and have chosen her for his mother and have wished to be born of her if she had been in existence when he was made man!
— Victor Hugo
To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love.
— Timothy Keller
Because God created the Natural - invented it out of His love and artistry - it demands our reverence.
— CS Lewis
We have grown so accustomed to the idea of divine love...that we no longer sense the awe that God's coming should awaken in us.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Some people say I would love to take a selfie with Moses. Do you understand the gap between Moses and God?
— Francis Chan
A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the Universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths.
— Carl Sagan
there is no deeper religious feeling than the feeling for the natural world. I wouldn't separate the world of nature from the religious instinct...I would not even object to saying that the sense of awe before the grandeur of nature is itself a religious experience.
— Carl Sagan