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Reverence

Reverence

"The LORD'S eyes are upon the reverent" (Ps. 33:18)

"Let all the earth fear the LORD; let all who dwell in the world show reverence." (Ps. 33:8)

"But I can enter your house because of your great love. I can worship in your holy temple because of my reverence for you, LORD." (Ps. 5:8)

"Keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary. I am the LORD." (Lev. 26:2)

"A son honors his father, and a servant fears his master; If then I am a father, where is the honor due to me? And if I am a master, where is the reverence due to me? - So says the LORD of hosts to you, O priests, who despise his name." (Mal. 1:6)

"Therefore, we who are receiving the unshakable kingdom should have gratitude, with which we should offer worship pleasing to God in reverence and awe. For our God is a consuming fire." (Heb. 12:28-29)

"Now if you invoke as Father him who judges impartially according to each one's works, conduct yourselves with reverence during the time of your sojourning, realizing that you were ransomed from your futile conduct, handed on by your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold but with the precious blood of Christ" (St. Peter, 1 Pt. 1:17-19)

"Always be ready to give an explanation to anyone who asks you for a reason for your hope, but do it with gentleness and reverence, keeping your conscience clear, so that, when you are maligned, those who defame your good conduct in Christ may themselves be put to shame. For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that be the will of God, than for doing evil." (St. Peter, 1 Pt. 3:15-17)

"Similarly, (too,) women should adorn themselves with proper conduct, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hairstyles and gold ornaments, or pearls, or expensive clothes, but rather, as befits women who profess reverence for God, with good deeds." (St. Paul, 1 Tm. 2:9-10)

"Similarly, older women should be reverent in their behavior, not slanderers, not addicted to drink, teaching what is good, so that they may train younger women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, chaste, good homemakers, under the control of their husbands, so that the word of God may not be discredited." (St. Paul, Ti. 2:3-5)

"Likewise, you wives should be subordinate to your husbands so that, even if some disobey the word, they may be won over without a word by their wives' conduct when they observe your reverent and chaste behavior." (St. Peter, 1 Pt. 3:1-2)

"Meanwhile I saw wicked men approach and enter; and as they left the sacred place, they were praised in the city for what they had done. This also is vanity. Because the sentence against evildoers is not promptly executed, therefore the hearts of men are filled with the desire to commit evil - because the sinner does evil a hundred times and survives. Though indeed I know that it shall be well with those who fear God, for their reverence toward him; and that it shall not be well with the wicked man, and he shall not prolong his shadowy days, for his lack of reverence toward God." (Eccl. 8:10-13)

"[E]xternal actions are signs of internal reverence" (St. Thomas Aquinas, Doctor of the Church and "greatest theologian in the history of the Church")

"[You should approach more reverently than if you] were about to approach all the rulers in the whole world seated together in one place." (St. Thomas More)

"But, assuredly, all of the duties which man has to fulfill, that without doubt, is the chiefest and holiest which commands him to worship God with devotion and piety." (Pope Leo XIII)

"Holy things must be treated in a holy way and this sacrifice is the most holy of all things." (Council of Trent)

"[I]t is proper to religion to show reverence to God." (St. Thomas Aquinas, Doctor of the Church and "greatest theologian in the history of the Church")

"[I]t belongs to religion to declare one's faith by certain signs indicative of reverence towards God." (St. Thomas Aquinas, Doctor of the Church and "greatest theologian in the history of the Church")

"Among sins opposed to religion, the more grievous is that which is the more opposed to the reverence due to God." (St. Thomas Aquinas, Doctor of the Church and "greatest theologian in the history of the Church")

"[T]he end of religion is to pay reverence to God. Wherefore whatever pertains directly to irreverence for God is opposed to religion." (St. Thomas Aquinas, Doctor of the Church and "greatest theologian in the history of the Church")

"Now it belongs to religion to show reverence to one God under one aspect, namely, as the first principle of the creation and government of things. Wherefore He Himself says (Malachi 1:6): 'If... I be a father, where is My honor?'" (St. Thomas Aquinas, Doctor of the Church and "greatest theologian in the history of the Church")

"By the one same act man both serves and worships God, for worship regards the excellence of God, to Whom reverence is due: while service regards the subjection of man who, by his condition, is under an obligation of showing reverence to God." (St. Thomas Aquinas, Doctor of the Church and "greatest theologian in the history of the Church")

"Reverence is due to God on account of His excellence, which is communicated to certain creatures not in equal measure, but according to a measure of proportion; and so the reverence which we pay to God, and which belongs to latria, differs from the reverence which we pay to certain excellent creatures; this belongs to dulia" (St. Thomas Aquinas, Doctor of the Church and "greatest theologian in the history of the Church")

Also See: Against Applause / Noise in Church | Silence in Church | Kneeling / Prostrating / Bowing / Genuflecting | Proper / Improper Church Attire | Beauty & Decorum in the House of God | Consecrated / Dedicated / Blessed Altars & Sacred Places | Notorious Public Criminals Not to Serve at Altar / Assist at Services | Denial of Eucharist to Public Sinners | Sacred Things Not to be Put to Repugnant / Inappropriate Uses | Sacred Vessels Not To Be Touched by Laity | Desecration of Sacred Places | Profanation of a Sacred Object | Sacrilege | Sacred Art / Images | Rejected Artwork | Sacred Furnishings | Sacred Music | Suitable / Unsuitable Music | Bands Forbidden in Church | Forbidden / Allowed Instruments | Sacred Music is Not For the Purpose of Pleasure or Showing Off | "Our Responsibilities in God's House" (Flier / Resources) | Bowing Down (Topical Scripture) | Reverence (Topical Scripture) | Fear of the Lord (Topical Scripture)

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