Fear of the Divine Quotes

I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.

I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

We fear men so much, because we fear God so little.

Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.

Who is all-powerful should fear everything.

The creation of God itself, I deduced, came from our primal fear.

Nothing is so much to be feared as fear. Atheism may comparatively be popular with God himself.

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.

Let us fear God and we shall cease to fear man.

I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid.

I went to so many sleepovers where these parents were reading the 'Book of Revelation' before bed and things like that. I would listen to that stuff, and I would sit there and say to myself, 'If God is so great and so good, why is there this list of rules?' Like, you go to hell if you don't believe in him and hold him up above everyone else.

Fear is that passion which hath the greatest power over us, and by which God and His laws take the surest hold of us.

It needs more than a heart of oak to shed all fear except the fear of God.

I'm totally secular, but I'm scared like hell of God.

I am only scared of God.