Pride
We are all proud in one way or another. So, let me ask....is pride good or is it bad? You will find many people that will tell you that there is nothing wrong with being proud. They will tell you that they are proud of their accomplishments. They will tell you that they are proud of their family. And there is nothing wrong with that. We should be proud of our accomplishments. We should be proud of our family. This pride is good pride. This pride is the reasonable, justified, and balanced sense of joy, respect, and satisfaction in our (or another's) accomplishments and abilities. This pride is not sinful.
Pride is a very sneaky sin. There is a very fine line between good pride and bad pride. Bad pride is the unreasonable, unjustified, and terribly unbalanced sense of joy and satisfaction in our abilities and accomplishments. It fosters a spirit of selfishness, arrogance, restlessness, ingratitude, and an over-inflated sense of worth. This pride is sinful. This is the pride we need to avoid....
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Envy
Envy is an easy sin to fall into, isn't it? We look at what others have. We look at their successes, their possessions, their looks, their talents, their friends, and we ask ourselves, "Why don't I have that?" We look at what others have that we don't and we become envious. Thomas Aquinas said that "envy is sorrow at another person's good." Gore Vidal had this to say of envy: "When a friend of mine succeeds, something in me dies."
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Anger
Have you ever been angry? Of course! All of us have been angry about something at some point in our lives. Why were you angry? What did you do with that anger? Do you think you were justified in your anger? Let's face it, all of us get angry. Even Jesus got angry....
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Gluttony
Gluttony is the immoderate, unreasonable pleasure in food and drink, and it is a sin. The Catholic Church is not Puritanistic in saying that we cannot enjoy food and drink. There is nothing wrong with taking pleasure in eating and drinking. However, when making the desire for food and drink the center of your life, then you cross into gluttony...
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Sloth
I've been meaning to write this post on the next deadly sin for a while....but I've been too lazy to do it. Seriously, I'm lazy. Sloth is probably the deadly sin that I struggle with the most. I like my comfort zones, and when I'm within them, I want to stay there. I don't want to be challenged. I don't want to have to work hard. I want to just ask the question, "What is the least I can do and survive?" Sometimes I'm so lazy that I want to go out and buy products like this...
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Lust
Everywhere you look our culture is telling us....IS SCREAMING AT US....that sex is good and that there is nothing wrong with having sex whenever, wherever, and however we want to. In fact, our culture ENCOURAGES us to have sex whenever, wherever, and however we want to....
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Greed
Over-eating. Shopping malls. Toy stores. Waiting in long lines to get the great deal. Wading through busy stores. Surfing the net to find the best price. What did you do this holiday weekend? Did you eat too much on Thursday and then spend too much the rest of the weekend?
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