John Calvin Quotes

As for our great King, when we venture into His presence, let us have a purpose there. Let us beware of playing at praying; it is insolence toward God.

It is always edifying for mortals to look at a god.

We have grown so accustomed to the idea of divine love...that we no longer sense the awe that God's coming should awaken in us.

The clearest sensation that a human being has when he experiences the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of creatureliness. That is, when we are in the presence of God, we are humbled and become most aware of ourselves as creatures. This is the opposite of Satan's original temptation, "You shall be as gods.

As we come closer to Him, we not only "stand all amazed"-we even kneel all amazed!

All glory to God.

No man can see God in this life and live because His glory would annihilate our poor, weak human nature.

Everything in man should halt in awe...Let all the world quake and let Heaven exult when Christ the Son of the living God is there on the altar.

The awe of God is wisdom.

For me, the massiveness of what I don't know is one way I experience God. It creates in me a feeling of humility and a sense of gratitude.

When you talk about God, the first thing that comes along is not love, it's fear. You have to fear, and be in awe. You have to be scared. Any religion, it's like first thing.

Sometimes we are simply "blown away" and in awe by finding ourselves in the presence of God. Other times, however, even when we are participating in acts of kindness-complimenting others, writing a check to charity, donating time to a good cause-we are oblivious to the miracle of what is happening at that moment.

I love to hear my Lord spoken of, and wherever I have seen the print of His shoe in the earth, there have I coveted to put mine also.

Don't criticize nature, stand in awe of it.

God has thickly strewn infinity with grandeur.

Wherever you have seen God pass, mark that spot, and go and sit in that window again.

Even though the discples were not aware of it, the presence was with them while they were reviewing the scriptures together on the road. Henceforth, we will catch only a fleeting glimpse of it -- in the study of sacred writings, in other human beings, in liturgy, and in communion with strangers. But these moments remain us that our fellow men and women are themselves sacred; there is something about them taht is worthy of absolute reverence, is in the last resort mysterious, and we will always elude us.

Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.

Let's not get too full of ourselves. Let's leave space for God to come into the room.

The wise man comes to God without saying a word and stands in awe of Him.

No matter who you are,no matter what you do-do not be too big for GOD.

As for me, I consider myself as a speck of the dust of the devotee's feet.

When man is with God in awe and love, then he is praying.

The ocean doesn't care about you. It makes your boat feel tiny. The oceans are great promoters of religion, or at least of humility-but not in everyone.

This divineness had that in it which, though commanding worship, at the same time enforced a certain nameless terror.