Quotes about Awe

Let all the earth fear the Lord; let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him! PSALM 33:8

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. When you quit celebrating grace, you begin to forget how much you need grace, and when you forget how much you need grace, you quit seeking the rescue and strength that only grace can give. This means you begin to see yourself as more righteous, strong, and wise than you actually are, and in so doing, you set yourself up for trouble.

We need to do everything we can to put the glory of God and his grace before our children so that the awe of God would rule over their hearts.

The war that rages in all our hearts is a war between the awe of God and the awe of self. The war really does somehow turn all of us into glory thieves. Perhaps we commit vertical larceny much more than we realize. Perhaps we quest for personal glory more than we think. Perhaps we take credit for what only God can do more often than we think we do. Perhaps, in subtle idolatry, we give credit to places and things when it really belongs to God.

It's so easy to load life onto your shoulders and be more motivated by low-grade anxiety than by divine awe.

The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder. G. K. CHESTERTON

When we replace vertical awe of God with awe of self, bad things happen in the horizontal community.

When awe of God has captured your heart, ministry will fill your schedule.

in the heart of a sinner, awe of God is very quickly replaced by awe of self.

No awesome thing in creation was meant to give you what only the Creator is able to give. Every awesome thing in creation is designed to point you to the One who alone is worthy of capturing and controlling the awe of your searching and hungry heart.

Think of how strange the colours and sights of the world would be for a blind man abruptly made to see or a man deaf from birth hearing the playing of a hundred flutes

Our experiences of God matter—those sacred moments that defy the very rational capabilities we are so keen to rely on.