Quotes about Reverence
When we oppose God's delegated authority, we oppose God Himself.
— John Bevere
If the text is God's Word, it is appropriate that we respond with reverence, a certain fear, a holy joy, a questing obedience.
— DA Carson
We don't get to decide who God is.
— Francis Chan
Men of God are those who walk in the fear of the Lord.
— Matt Chandler
Despite the protestations, one sometimes wonders if we are beginning to worship, worship rather than worship God.
— DA Carson
As we begin to face up to the holiness of God, our lives resound with that very same anthem, here and now upon the earth.
— Matt Redman
The failure of modern evangelicalism is the failure to understand the holiness of God.
— RC Sproul
Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.
— William Wordsworth
It is one thing to fear God as threatening, with a holy reverence, and another to be afraid of the evil threatened.
— John Owen
The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
We are afraid that if we stop and really look at God in his Word, we might discover that he evokes greater awe and demands deeper worship than we are ready to give him.
— David Platt
God loves us; we need only to summon up the humility to allow ourselves to be loved.
— Pope Benedict XVI