Quotes about Awe

Developing leaders is not just downloading theological knowledge and ministry skill, but calling people to lead with hearts captured by the awe of God.

It is dangerous to live without your heart being captured by awe of God, because awe of God is quickly replaced by awe of you.

I was wired for awe of God. No other awe satisfies the soul.

When amazing realities of the gospel quit commanding your attention, your awe, and your worship, other things in your life will capture your attention instead.

The myriad of dysfunctions of the human community can be traced to this one thing: awe. When we replace vertical awe of God with awe of self, bad things happen in the horizontal community.

3. We replace vertical awe with horizontal addiction.

Prayer is, in itself, a recognition that something exists in the world that is greater and more glorious than you. Prayer is meant to remind you that your little world, filled with your little plans, is not ultimate. Prayer teaches you that there is a greater glory than any glory that you could ever want for yourself. Prayer is meant to help you remember that the deepest, most important motivation for every person who has ever taken a breath is the awe of God.

Either your heart lives in a fundamental, life-shaping awe of the horizontal, physical, created world ("things that are on the earth"), or your heart lives in a foundational vertical awe of God, his work, his grace, and his kingdom. If your

Theological instruction that does not arouse awe is broken.

Horizontal awe is meant to do one thing: stimulate vertical

It's only when my heart is captured by the awe of God that I will view my identity rightly.

Perhaps in ways that you have never come close to considering, your dissatisfaction is an awe problem.