Quotes about Reverence
Corporate worship is to be orderly.
— Mark Driscoll
Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.
— John Milton
How sweet the name of Jesus sounds In a believer's ear; It soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds, And drives away his fear.
— John Newton
God is so immense that if he were 'too visible,' people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.
— John Ortberg
The only people who soul can truly magnify the Lord are...people who acknowledge their lowly estate and are overwhelmed by the condescension of the magnificent God.
— John Piper
Humility is the flip side of giving God all the glory. Humility means reveling in his grace, not our goodness.
— John Piper
The aim of the climb is not intellectual satisfaction. The aim is worship. God gets more honor when we worship on the basis of what we know about him than he gets if we worship on the basis of what we don't know.
— John Piper
Theology is a means to enjoying and worshiping God, or it is useless.
— John Piper
God is glorified in his people by the way we experience him, not merely by the way we think about him. Indeed
— John Piper
the destruction of conceived human life—whether embryonic, fetal, or viable—is an assault on the unique person-forming work of God. And therefore to the degree that we recognize even in fallen person-hood a unique value, because of its potential to glorify God with conscious obedience and praise, to that degree will we shrink back with reverence and fear from assaulting or obstructing the
— John Piper
I have no sure sight of God's glory except through his word. The word mediates the glory, and the glory confirms the word.
— John Piper
We must train our people that it is not irreverent to see difficulties in the biblical text and to think hard about how they can be resolved.
— John Piper