“At one level ‘human respect’ seems a good thing. After all we ought to respect, honor and appreciate one another. What then is meant by the ‘sin of human respect?’ At its core, the sin of human respect is that sin wherein we fear man more than God; where we more concerned with what people think of us and what we do, than what God thinks. This is an unholy fear, a sinful fear which is at the root of a lot of sins we commit as well as of many sins of omission.”
In a recent commentary, Monsignor Charles Pope (pastor of Holy Comforter-Saint Cyprian Parish, Washington, DC) reflected on the sin of “human respect” – being more concerned with what people think about us than what God thinks.
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