Quotes about Reverence

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.

I was wired for awe of God. No other awe satisfies the soul.

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.