Note (return) — CHAPTER SEVEN Worship as the Chief Approach to Transcendence
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Thus "I would love Thee, O God, if there were no heaven, and if there were no hell, I would fear Thee no less." Reverence is devotion to goodness, sense of awe-struck loyalty to a Being manifestly under the influence of principles higher than our own.41 Now it is with these last two, awe and reverence, rather than wonder and admiration, that worship has to do.