Treating our neighbor with royal dignity, honoring his or her creation in the
Image of God.
Making others feel welcome and comfortable in our presence.
- 1. Deportment; carriage; behavior; conduct; course of life; in
a moral sense.
- Evil communications corrupt good manners 1 Cor xv.
- 2. Ceremonious behavior; civility; decent and respectful
deportment.
- Shall we, in our applications to the great God, take that to be
religion, which the common reason of mankind will not allow to be manners?
South.
Webster's 1st ed., 1828 |
While my mother and father took fistfights as part of growing up,
both were intolerant of bad manners. Manners were the mark of a
gentleman, a mark of good breeding; rudeness toward elders, and
especially women, was unpardonable. Almost as soon as we could pray, we
were instructed in the proper way to handle a knife and fork, and in how
to answer our elders and superiors. It was always "Yes, ma'am"
and "No, ma'am" to anything my mother said, or to what any
woman said, and "Yes, sir," always, to our father.
Patrick J. Buchanan, Right from the Beginning, p.
39. |
Good manners are a form of Christian Reconstruction. The every-day
problems of life are met in terms of a desire to solve them with grace
and charity. A revolutionary temper is hostile to reconstruction; its
urge is to destroy, not to rebuild. . . . When St. Paul wrote,
"evil communications corrupt good manners" (1 Cor 15:33), the
word he used was ethos, ethical conduct or morals. Moffat
rendered it "character." . . . [A] young student . . . a
humanist and a revolutionary minded atheist, observed, "I was
deliberately rude and immoral; I figured if life was senseless enough to
make everything add up to nothing, then manners and morals were nothing
but lipstick and paint on a corpse." . . . Our Lord declared,
"because I live, ye shall live also" (John 14:19). The
revolutionist says in effect to man and the world, "because I die,
you shall die also." His gift to the world is death.
R.J. Rushdoony, "Manners," Salvation and
Godly Rule, 1983. |
1 Corinthians 14:33-40 For God is not the author of confusion but of peace,
as in all the churches of the saints. {40} Let all things be done decently and in
order.
Isaiah 3:5 The people will be oppressed, Every one by another and every one by
his neighbor; The child will be insolent toward the elder, And the base toward the
honorable."
Philippians 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are
noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever
things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is
any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy; meditate on these things.
2 Thessalonians 3:7 For you yourselves know how you ought to follow us, for we
were not disorderly among you;
1 Peter 3:8 Finally, all of you be of one mind, having compassion for one
another; love as brothers, be tenderhearted, be courteous;
1 Corinthians 13:5a Love doth not behave itself unseemly (rudely, [NKJV]).
I am mortifying the deeds of the flesh. My "old
man" was
| abrupt |
boorish |
| brash |
crusty |
| curt |
discourteous |
| disrespectful |
bratty |
| flippant |
ill-behaved |
| ill-mannered |
impertinent |
| saucy |
savage |
| impudent |
insolent |
| irreverent |
rude |
| sarcastic |
sassy |
| smart ass |
snotty |
| surly |
thoughtless |
| uncalled for |
uncivil |
| uncouth |
wisenheimer |
I honor every person as though he were a king or queen.
My good manners remind others that they are "fearfully and wonderfully
made" (Ps. 139:14) in the image and likeness of God.
I accept every person as a brother or sister.
My good manners remind others that we are all one family, and defuse arguments
and conflicts.
I refresh others with manners which speak of love and respect.
My good manners remind others of how gracious our God is for the gift of life.
My good manners show others that life is good, and are an investment in the
future.
Manners are not "insider information" that make me superior to others; knowledge that I can use to belittle others and make them feel inferior to me.
And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to
those who are the called according to His purpose. For whom He foreknew, He
also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be
the firstborn among many brethren.
-- Romans 8:28-29
I have remembered Thy Name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept Thy Law.
-- Psalm 119:55
This isn't that New Age "Positive
Thinking" stuff, is it??
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