FEAR
OF GOD

Serve the Lord with fear …

The Bible, Psalm 2:11

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge …

The Bible, Proverbs 1:7

Fear God and give him glory …

The Bible, Revelation 14:7

“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom” (Prov. 1:7). Happy the soul that has been awed by a view of God’s majesty, that has had a vision of God’s awful greatness, His ineffable holiness, His perfect righteousness, His irresistible power, His sovereign grace.

Author unknown

John Knox feared God so much that he never feared the face of any man.

Author unknown

We will always live less than a responsible life if we fear anything other than God.

Neil Anderson

The fear of God kills all other fears.

Hugh Black

I fear God, yet I am not afraid of him.

Thomas Browne

A hard heart is impenitent, and impenitence also makes the heart harder and harder. If you would be rid of a hard heart, that great enemy to the growth of the grace of fear, be much with Christ upon the cross in thy meditations, for that is an excellent remedy against the hardness of heart; a right sight of him, as he hanged there for thy sins, will dissolve thy heart into tears, and make it soft and tender. “They shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn.” Now, a soft, a tender, and broken heart is a fit place for the grace of fear to thrive in.

John Bunyan

The remarkable thing about fearing God is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else.

Oswald Chambers

The remarkable thing about fearing God is that when you fear God you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God you fear everything else.

Oswald Chambers

The fear of God furthers every enterprise that governments undertake.

Machiavelli

There is a virtuous fear which is the effect of faith, and a vicious fear which is the product of doubt and distrust. Persons of the one character fear to lose God; those of the other character fear to find Him.

Blaise Pascal

He that leaves off prayer leaves off the fear of God.

Thomas Watson