Best worship & awe Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“A poet feels the impulse to create a work of art when the passive awe provoked by an event is transformed into a desire to express that awe in a rite of worship.”

Feels Art Desire Creativity Events Poet Worship Impulse Awe Works Of Art Transformed Passive Rite Provoked

Author:W. H. Auden

“This gathered worship, as Quakers call it, is not only absence of noise. Gathered worship springs from the reverent, silent expectation that God will come among the people. The silence deepens as we feel ourselves drawn beautifully to God and each other. Our hearts and souls burst with thanksgiving-a thanksgiving best expressed by silence. Silence growing from awe is the natural human response to hints of the Divine.”

People Feels Humans Heart Soul Natural Silence Growing Divine Worship Spring Expectations Silent Response Absence Gods Will Noise Awe Hints Heart And Soul Quaker

Author:J. Brent Bill

“Only when we are captured by an overwhelming sense of awe and reverence in the presence of God, will we begin to worship God in spirit and in truth.”

Spirit Worship Gods Will Awe Overwhelming Reverence Captured Presence Of God Worship God

Author:Alistair Begg

“Worship is to feel in the heart . . . it is an attitude and a state of mind. It is a sustained act, subject to varying degrees of intensity and perfection . . . Real worship is, among other things, a feeling about the Lord our God . . . It is in our hearts. And we must be willing to express it in an appropriate manner. If we love the Lord and are led by His Holy Spirit, our worship will always bring a delighted sense of admiring awe and a sincere humility on our part.”

“Governments may change, and opinions, and the very appearance of lands themselves, but the slowest thing to change is religion. What has once been associated with worship becomes holy in itself, and self-perpetuating, always built upon the foundation of mingled awe and attraction which the unknown has for the mind of man.”

Men Mind May Self Government Religion Opinion Land Holy Worship Built Foundation Appearance Attraction Awe Perpetuating

Book:Personal geography: almost an autobiography

Source: Personal geography: almost an autobiography

“Is it not possible that the chimpanzees are responding to some feeling like awe? A feeling generated by the mystery of water; water that seems alive, always rushing past yet never going, always the same yet ever different. Was it perhaps similar feelings of awe that gave rise to the first animistic religions, the worship of the elements and the mysteries of nature over which there was no control? Only when our prehistoric ancestors developed language would it have been possible to discuss such internal feelings and create a shared religion.”

Firsts Has Beens Different Feelings Seems Past Language Water Alive Mystery Elements Worship Awe Internals Ancestor Responding Rushing Chimpanzees Prehistoric Mystery Of Nature

Author:Jane Goodall

“The incipient magician will confess his faith to a universal religion. He will find out that every religion has good points as well as bad ones. He will therefore keep the best of it for himself and ignore the weak points, which does not necessarily mean that he must profess a religion, but he shall express awe to each for of worship, for each religion has its proper principle of God, whether the point in question be Christianity, Buddhism, Islam or any other kind of religion.”

Wells Kind Mean Doe Christianity Principles Magic Buddhism Worship Weak Universal Islam Awe Mysticism Magician Weak Points

Author:Franz Bardon

“But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross.”

Looks Hands Jesus Christ Worship Crosses Access Familiar Combination Awe Testament New Testament Old Testament Vertical Horizontal

Author:Bono

“As never before, he understood the vitality of tradition, the dignity of the worship of what had existed before one's own self had come into being. There was no shame in awe; there was exaltation. (“Cafe Endless: Spring Rain”)”

Self Worship Spring Understood Rain Tradition Dignity Shame Endless Awe Vitality Being There Cafes Exaltation Spring Rain

Author:Nancy Holder

“I know our culture will sometimes understand a love for Jesus as weakness. There is this lie floating around that says I am supposed to be able to do life alone, without any help, without stopping to worship something bigger than myself. But I actually believe there is something bigger than me, and I need for there to be something bigger than me. I need someone to put awe inside me; I need to come second to someone who has everything figured out.”

Knows Needs Believe Sometimes Helping Able Lying Culture Jesus Worship Weakness Bigger Supposed To Be Awe Stopping Floating

Book:Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God

Source: Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God

“You become like what you worship. When you gaze in awe, admiration, and wonder at something or someone, you begin to take on something of the character of the object of your worship.”

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Author:N. T. Wright

“Saints are described as fearing the name of God; they are reverent worshippers; they stand in awe of the Lord's authority; they are afraid of offending Him; they feel their own nothingness in the sight of the Infinite One.”

Feels Names Lord Authority Worship Sight Infinite Saint Awe Nothingness Offending Worshippers

Book:Treasury of David

Source: Treasury of David

“Worship without wonder is lifeless and boring. Many have lost their sense of awe and amazement when it comes to God. Having begun with the arrogant presumption of knowing about God all that one can, they reduce Him to manageable terms and confine Him to a tidy theological box, the dimensions of which conform to their predilections of what a god ought to be and do.”

Lost Term Wonder Knowing Ought Worship Boxes Boring Dimensions Awe Arrogant Conform Theological Amazement Presumption Tidy Lifeless Manageable

Author:Sam Storms

“Awe combined with intimacy is the essence of Christian worship.”

Christian Worship Essence Intimacy Awe Christian Worship

Book:Gospel: Recovering the Power that Made Christianity Revolutionary

Source: Gospel: Recovering the Power that Made Christianity Revolutionary

“Worship is a believer's response to God's revelation of Himself. It is expressing wonder, awe, and gratitude for the worthiness, the greatness, and the goodness of our Lord. It is the appropriate response to God's person, His provision, His power, His promises, and His plan.”

Persons Wonder Lord Plans Greatness Gratitude Promise Goodness Worship Response Believer Revelations Awe Appropriate Our Lord Provision Worthiness

Book:A Place of Quiet Rest: Finding Intimacy with God Through a Daily Devotional Life

Source: A Place of Quiet Rest: Finding Intimacy with God Through a Daily Devotional Life

“Call it "womb awe" or even "womb worship" but it's not simple envy. I don't remember even wanting to be a woman. But each of the three times I have been present at the birth of one of my children, I have been overwhelmed by a sense of reverence... It was quite suddenly, the first day of creation; the Goddess giving birth to a world... Like men since the beginning of time I wondered: What can I ever create that will equal the magnificence of this new life?”

“Worship is not a repetitious exercise of rituals and formulas. These create a veil that actually prevents us from enjoying the presence of the Lord. Worship is the heart poured out in gratitude and awe, expressing our appreciation of who He is and what He has done for us by His grace through Jesus Christ.”

Heart Done Jesus Enjoy Christ Lord Grace Exercise Gratitude Worship Jesus Christ Appreciation Awe Ritual Formulas Veils

Author:Dave Hunt

“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.”

Ifs Giving Looks Might Greater Ready Demand Worship Deeper Radical Awe Evoke

Author:David Platt

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