Reverence for the Divine Quotes

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

I fear God and respect God and love God.

The best thing is to go from nature's God dawn to nature; and if you once get to nature's God, and believe Him, and love Him, it is surprising how easy it is to hear music in the waves, and songs in the wild whisperings of the winds; to see God everywhere in the stones, in the rocks, in the rippling brooks, and hear Him everywhere, in the lowing of cattle, in the rolling of thunder, and in the fury of tempests. Get Christ first, put Him in the right place, and you will find Him to be the wisdom of God in your own experience.

If we look closely at this earth, where God seems so utterly forgotten, we shall find that it is He, after all, who commands the most fidelity and the most love.

It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.

Hardly can it be judged whether it be better for mankind to believe that the gods have regard of us, or that they have none, considering that some men have no respect and reverence for the gods, and others so much that their superstition is a shame to them.

We are made to know and love God.

God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.

Whosoever wisely examines the works of God will speedily discover what is next to be done.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Men love everything but righteousness and fear everything but God.

You have to be humble when you're dealing with God.

Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.

Of all human and ancient opinions concerning religion, that seems to me the most likely and most excusable, that acknowledged God as an incomprehensible power, the original and preserver of all things, all goodness, all perfection, receiving and taking in good part the honour and reverence that man paid him, under what method, name, or ceremonies soever.

A solemn and religious regard to spiritual and eternal things is an indispensable element of all true greatness.

We betray our modern arrogance and forget the place of mystery in God's dealing with us.

Religion is nothing else but love of God and man.

Men reverence one another, not yet God.