Quotes about Reverence
But be warned! The book is an inconceivably impressive sharpening of the commandment 'Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain'.
— Karl Barth
Creation is grace: a statement at which we should like best to pause in reverence, fear and gratitude. God does not grudge the existence of the reality distinct from Himself; He does not grudge it its own reality, nature and freedom.
— Karl Barth
No man can adequately reach and explain a single word of God with all his words.
— Brennan Manning
The cross of Christ is the response of God to men for belittling His name.
— Matt Chandler
Men sunk in the greatest darkness imaginable retain some sense and awe of the Deity.
— John Tillotson
Humility, a sense of reverence before the sons of heaven - of all the prizes that a mortal man might win, these, I say, are wisest; these are best.
— Euripides
It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death hallows him anew to us; as if life were not sacred too.
— George Eliot
The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men reverence one another, not yet God.
— Henry David Thoreau
Men can make an idol of the Bible.
— Henry Ward Beecher
All the more I study Nature do I revere God, because Nature is all the body of God we will ever know.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence.
— Albert Einstein