Spiritual Reverence Quotes

The fear of God is the death of every other fear; like a mighty lion, it chases all other fears before it.

To be worshiped is not freedom.

The temple is holy because it is not for sale.

Long as I have lived, and many blasphemers as I have heard and seen, I have never yet heard or witnessed any direct and consciousblasphemy or irreverence; but of indirect and habitual, enough. Where is the man who is guilty of direct and personal insolence to Him that made him?

If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.

We should worship as though the deity were present.

Orthodox Christians have the habit of claiming all great men, all men who have held important positions, men of reputation, men of wealth. As soon as the funeral is over clergymen begin to relate imaginary conversations with the deceased, and in a very little while the great man is changed to a Christian - possibly to a saint.

The holiness of God is traumatic to unholy people.

I bring you with reverent hands The books of my numberless dreams.

May every citizen ... have a proper sense of the Deity upon his mind and an impression of the declaration recorded in the Bible, 'Him that honoreth Me I will honor, but he that despiseth Me shall be lightly esteemed.'

Pray to Him anyway you like, He can even hear the footfall of an ant.

If the Lord is to be Lord, worship must have priority in our lives. The divine priority is worship first, service second.

Words like 'God' and 'Allah' must go the way of 'Apollo' and 'Baal' or they will unmake our world.

No, nothing is sacred. And even if there were to be something called sacred, we mere primates wouldn't be able to decide which book or which idol or which city was the truly holy one. Thus, the only thing that should be upheld at all costs and without qualification is the right of free expression, because if that goes, then so do all other claims of right as well.

Venerate the martyrs, praise, love, proclaim, honor them. But worship the God of the martyrs.

To speak of beauty is to enter another and more exalted realm-a realm sufficiently apart from our everyday concerns as to be mentioned only with a certain hesitation. People who are always in praise and pursuit of the beautiful are an embarrassment, like people who make a constant display of their religious faith. Somehow, we feel such things should be kept for our exalted moments, and not paraded in company, or allowed to spill out over dinner.

The better proof of reverence for that holy name would be not to profane it by making it a topic of legislative discussion.

Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy.

Many people fear the words Lord and God.

The mistake made by all previous systems of ethics has been the failure to recognize that life as such is the mysterious value with which they have to deal. All spiritual life meets us within natural life. Reverence for life, therefore, is applied to natural life and spiritual life alike. In the parable of Jesus, the shepherd saves not merely the soul of the lost sheep but the whole animal. The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.

[Worshipping God] is like fellating someone who intermittently stubs fags out on your head for no good reason. And we all know how unsatisfying that can be.

Despite the protestations, one sometimes wonders if we are beginning to worship, worship rather than worship God.

We must approach religion with reverence and with love, and our heart will stand up and say, this is truth, and this is untruth.

It's easy to get attached to idols, good things inappropriately adored. But when you have Jesus in the centre of a room, everything else only junks up the decor.

Worship is the proper response of all moral, sentient beings to God, ascribing all honor and worth to their Creator-God precisely because he is worthy, delightfully so.