Quotes about Reverence

I saw you as another god.

The height of devotion is reached when reverence and contemplation produce passionate worship, which in turn breaks forth in thanksgiving and praise in word and song.

Thanksgiving is nothing if not a glad and reverent lifting of the heart to God in honor and praise for His goodness.

Don't ever come to church without coming as though it were the first time, as though it could be the best time, and as though it could be the last time.

When Sam was six or so, he explained to me why we call God God: Because when you see something so great, you just go, 'God!

In order to be a writer, you have to learn to be reverent.

I honestly think in order to be a writer, you have to learn to be reverent. If not, why are you writing? Why are you here?

To openly defy Him who is clothed with omnipotence, who can rend us in pieces or cast us into Hell any moment He pleases, is the very height of insanity. To

There can be no progress in Divine things until there is the personal recognition that God is Supreme, that He is to be feared and revered, that He is to be owned and served as Lord.

To get overprotective about particular readings of the Bible is always in danger of idolatry.

Dorothea, he said to himself, was for ever enthroned in his soul: no other woman could sit higher than her footstool...

There are few prophets in the world; few sublimely beautiful women; few heroes. I can't afford to give all my love and reverence to such rarities: I want a great deal of those feelings for my every-day fellow-men, especially for the few in the foreground of the great multitude, whose faces I know, whose hands I touch, for whom I have to make way with kindly courtesy.