The document summarizes key points from chapters 4-7 of the book "Vice and Virtue in an Age of Moral Confusion" by Os Guiness. It discusses the traditional definitions of virtues and vices, focusing on pride, envy, anger, meekness, peacemaking, sloth, avarice, gluttony, and lust. It explores the differences between good and injurious versions of these attributes and encourages choosing virtues over vices in how we address offenses.
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People usually remember the seven deadly sins, but they forget the seven Heavenly virtues. The seven virtues actually deflate the seven sins. It is about balance with your family, friends, and work. Enjoy.
The Art of Living Courageously Week 9: NonconformityRoz Savage
Authentic nonconformity is not nonconformity for its own sake; it is the expression of deeply held, self-originated, and unusual beliefs about how life should be lived. It is the unique expression of one’s essence.
But we also need conformity, and a great deal of it, to enable and support nonconformity. Even nonconformists will be conforming in many areas of their lives. So we should be wary of judgements around conformity, or lack of it.
Being different can require courage, especially when relatively young. (The older we get, the less we generally care what people think of us, which is an enormous relief.) Finding that courage is important, not only to our own happiness and mental health, but also for the greater good, because those with a different way of seeing the world have the capacity to make it a better place for the rest of us.
Seven Deadly Sins and Seven Heavenly VirtuesBrian Sullivan
People usually remember the seven deadly sins, but they forget the seven Heavenly virtues. The seven virtues actually deflate the seven sins. It is about balance with your family, friends, and work. Enjoy.
The Art of Living Courageously Week 9: NonconformityRoz Savage
Authentic nonconformity is not nonconformity for its own sake; it is the expression of deeply held, self-originated, and unusual beliefs about how life should be lived. It is the unique expression of one’s essence.
But we also need conformity, and a great deal of it, to enable and support nonconformity. Even nonconformists will be conforming in many areas of their lives. So we should be wary of judgements around conformity, or lack of it.
Being different can require courage, especially when relatively young. (The older we get, the less we generally care what people think of us, which is an enormous relief.) Finding that courage is important, not only to our own happiness and mental health, but also for the greater good, because those with a different way of seeing the world have the capacity to make it a better place for the rest of us.
An analysis of criminal thinking, boundary setting, contract building, and ways that a volunteer can ensure that they are being effective by reducuing the potential for being used or conned.
this presentation is about Inferiority complex,Inferiority Feelings and Personality. It is based on types of inferiority complex, Causes of inferiority complex,Tests for inferiority complex ,Superiority complex,Causes of superiority complex
Difference between Inferiority & Superiority complex
How to overcome Inferiority complex& how to overcome superiority complex.
The Art of Living Courageously Week 10: Military CourageRoz Savage
Even if you’re not in the military – heck, even if you’re a pacifist – there’s a lot we can learn from looking at courage in the military context. Having encountered quite a lot of military folks during my years in the adventure world, I will say that they are among the most organised, clear-thinking, calm, impressive - and courageous - people I have met.
Here we look at Warrior Courage, Military Leadership, and Personal Courage in a military context.
Trying to conform only steals your potential.
Standing out is the sole method to reach your best potential. Fitting in will cause you to make false presumptions and improper choices. It’s impossible to follow the herd and lead all at once.
Read the complete article here - http://www.isaiahhankel.com/how-to-avoid-groupthink-and-destroy-your-herd-mentality
Overcoming Shame By Mr. Nilesh Mandlecha
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When Socially unacceptable thing has happened with you and people look down at you- How you can deal with this situation is explained in this video.
For info log on to www.healthlibrary.com.
People Who Cause You Harm: How to Explain Dramatic and Erratic Personality Di...Jeni Mawter
This presentation identifies a massive gap in trauma-informed care for young people, the long-term harm of having a parent or family member with a personality disorder, specifically the Cluster “B” Personality Disorders.
Society is going through a radical shift in how it views, treats and manages Anxiety, Depression, Suicide Prevention, and Substance Abuse and Addiction. Rapid technological advances are seeing a cross fertilization between the traditional medical sciences of neurology and psychiatry. The traditional approach was that damage to the nervous system resulted in neurological disorders whereas psychiatric disorders involved disturbed behavior and emotional states. Today we know that neurological changes underpin psychiatric disorders as well as mental health and mental illness.
Another huge breakthrough in the neuropsychiatric research findings is the link to Mental Health and Trauma. Childhood Trauma initially focused on physical abuse in the Domestic Violence setting. Gradually, emotional abuse was taken into consideration to address risk and harm. Children and young people were considered at risk in light of such factors as homelessness, refugee and asylum seekers, juvenile justice settings and for those in indigenous communities. The issue of personality disorder and family relationships and breakdown has been ignored.
A personality disorder is a mental health disorder that affects how a person thinks, behaves and relates to others. The Cluster “B” parent has erratic and dramatic emotions and behaviors. Regulating emotions and maintaining healthy relationships is impossible. They are impulsive, low in empathy and low in conscience. They have a need to manipulate, control and disempower others. For family members, specifically their children, this culminates in significant distress and trauma. There is considerable harm to social, emotional, cognitive, spiritual and educational development.
Currently, there are almost no resources for children and young adults who have a Cluster “B” parent. The first step to healing is education to understand what, how and why this has happened to them. This SlideShare presentation aims to shed light on such questions as: What happened to me? Am I crazy? Are they the psycho or am I? Why do I feel so depressed/anxious/worthless? Most importantly, the goal is to help towards hope and healing, good mental health, resilience and peace.
Call to Action: Cluster “B” pathology is insidious, pernicious, deliberate and dangerous. These parents have tremendous destructive potential. Harm is hidden behind charm. They impact homes, families, workplaces, relationships and societies. Education is critical for every person in every system caught in the aftermath of dealing with their destruction: mental health, general health, family law, police departments, criminal justice, domestic violence and social service. Thank you.
The Art of Living Courageously Week 12: Wrap-Up and SummaryRoz Savage
This will be the last post in my blog series on The Art of Living Courageously. As we look at how to nurture courage in others and ourselves, we round up the main ideas from the class I’ve been teaching at Yale this semester. Specifically, we look at how to increase your own courage by boosting motivation and decreasing fear, and look at some techniques for keeping calm under pressure.
Various unconscious factors that set the stage for the unfolding of relational dynamics that can be distressing, emotionally painful, and highly destructive. The narcissist-codependent bond is a good example of this. I have argued that such dynamics are largely pre-determined and out of our control and awareness, which is why so many people become frustrated at identifying and limiting the negative impact of these dynamics on their lives. Consequently, these dynamics overtake our best efforts at living a healthy, productive life, and tend to cause chronic damage in our romantic lives, careers, friendships, and even in relation to our own self-care and self-esteem. In this talk, I present an approach to identifying and taking better control of these dynamics – so that we do not allow them to unfold in their typical insidious fashion. My perspective on interpersonal transformation involves a systematic analysis of what constitutes how we view others and how others view us. I will suggest that how we view and are viewed consist primarily of fabrications that perpetuate a series of emotional and psychological provocations which, ultimately, restrict how we maneuver through and negotiate the social world. How to identify and alter these fabrications is perhaps the most common question that has come up in our groups so far and that is asked by patients who see me individually for psychotherapy.
Inducing and Being Induced: How to Recognize Dysfunctional Relationship DynamicsJames Tobin, Ph.D.
As a species, we are socialized from birth to compromise various aspects of one’s true identity in order to appeal to the primary caregiver. Consequently, we learn how to play roles in relationships very early in development. Yet, role-playing continues into adulthood and even across the lifespan. Every human interaction may be conceptualized from the vantage point of roles, as roles organize emotional experience, the hierarchy of power between individual s and groups, and the execution of tasks. Human relationships, therefore, revolve around inhibitions and resistances to authentic intimacy given that roles provide an architecture of human relatedness and fend off psychological fears and anxieties about closeness. In no other aspect of human life is this most apparent than in romantic relationships. We unconsciously coerce or “induce” others to act in accordance with our role preference, and in turn we are coerced or induced to act in accordance with the role preferences of others. These induced roles quickly set into motion a sequence of interactions that constricts a person’s relational freedom, thus straight jacketing the person into a role that, over time, becomes quite rigid and constraining. Understanding these induction processes, as well as the unconscious longings that generate them, are perhaps the most important keys to having fulfilling, surprising, and viable relationships. In this presentation, I will discuss these induction processes, explain why they are so prevalent, and offer my thoughts on how they may be avoided and/or dissolved.
An analysis of criminal thinking, boundary setting, contract building, and ways that a volunteer can ensure that they are being effective by reducuing the potential for being used or conned.
this presentation is about Inferiority complex,Inferiority Feelings and Personality. It is based on types of inferiority complex, Causes of inferiority complex,Tests for inferiority complex ,Superiority complex,Causes of superiority complex
Difference between Inferiority & Superiority complex
How to overcome Inferiority complex& how to overcome superiority complex.
The Art of Living Courageously Week 10: Military CourageRoz Savage
Even if you’re not in the military – heck, even if you’re a pacifist – there’s a lot we can learn from looking at courage in the military context. Having encountered quite a lot of military folks during my years in the adventure world, I will say that they are among the most organised, clear-thinking, calm, impressive - and courageous - people I have met.
Here we look at Warrior Courage, Military Leadership, and Personal Courage in a military context.
Trying to conform only steals your potential.
Standing out is the sole method to reach your best potential. Fitting in will cause you to make false presumptions and improper choices. It’s impossible to follow the herd and lead all at once.
Read the complete article here - http://www.isaiahhankel.com/how-to-avoid-groupthink-and-destroy-your-herd-mentality
Overcoming Shame By Mr. Nilesh Mandlecha
Overcoming Shame
When Socially unacceptable thing has happened with you and people look down at you- How you can deal with this situation is explained in this video.
For info log on to www.healthlibrary.com.
People Who Cause You Harm: How to Explain Dramatic and Erratic Personality Di...Jeni Mawter
This presentation identifies a massive gap in trauma-informed care for young people, the long-term harm of having a parent or family member with a personality disorder, specifically the Cluster “B” Personality Disorders.
Society is going through a radical shift in how it views, treats and manages Anxiety, Depression, Suicide Prevention, and Substance Abuse and Addiction. Rapid technological advances are seeing a cross fertilization between the traditional medical sciences of neurology and psychiatry. The traditional approach was that damage to the nervous system resulted in neurological disorders whereas psychiatric disorders involved disturbed behavior and emotional states. Today we know that neurological changes underpin psychiatric disorders as well as mental health and mental illness.
Another huge breakthrough in the neuropsychiatric research findings is the link to Mental Health and Trauma. Childhood Trauma initially focused on physical abuse in the Domestic Violence setting. Gradually, emotional abuse was taken into consideration to address risk and harm. Children and young people were considered at risk in light of such factors as homelessness, refugee and asylum seekers, juvenile justice settings and for those in indigenous communities. The issue of personality disorder and family relationships and breakdown has been ignored.
A personality disorder is a mental health disorder that affects how a person thinks, behaves and relates to others. The Cluster “B” parent has erratic and dramatic emotions and behaviors. Regulating emotions and maintaining healthy relationships is impossible. They are impulsive, low in empathy and low in conscience. They have a need to manipulate, control and disempower others. For family members, specifically their children, this culminates in significant distress and trauma. There is considerable harm to social, emotional, cognitive, spiritual and educational development.
Currently, there are almost no resources for children and young adults who have a Cluster “B” parent. The first step to healing is education to understand what, how and why this has happened to them. This SlideShare presentation aims to shed light on such questions as: What happened to me? Am I crazy? Are they the psycho or am I? Why do I feel so depressed/anxious/worthless? Most importantly, the goal is to help towards hope and healing, good mental health, resilience and peace.
Call to Action: Cluster “B” pathology is insidious, pernicious, deliberate and dangerous. These parents have tremendous destructive potential. Harm is hidden behind charm. They impact homes, families, workplaces, relationships and societies. Education is critical for every person in every system caught in the aftermath of dealing with their destruction: mental health, general health, family law, police departments, criminal justice, domestic violence and social service. Thank you.
The Art of Living Courageously Week 12: Wrap-Up and SummaryRoz Savage
This will be the last post in my blog series on The Art of Living Courageously. As we look at how to nurture courage in others and ourselves, we round up the main ideas from the class I’ve been teaching at Yale this semester. Specifically, we look at how to increase your own courage by boosting motivation and decreasing fear, and look at some techniques for keeping calm under pressure.
Various unconscious factors that set the stage for the unfolding of relational dynamics that can be distressing, emotionally painful, and highly destructive. The narcissist-codependent bond is a good example of this. I have argued that such dynamics are largely pre-determined and out of our control and awareness, which is why so many people become frustrated at identifying and limiting the negative impact of these dynamics on their lives. Consequently, these dynamics overtake our best efforts at living a healthy, productive life, and tend to cause chronic damage in our romantic lives, careers, friendships, and even in relation to our own self-care and self-esteem. In this talk, I present an approach to identifying and taking better control of these dynamics – so that we do not allow them to unfold in their typical insidious fashion. My perspective on interpersonal transformation involves a systematic analysis of what constitutes how we view others and how others view us. I will suggest that how we view and are viewed consist primarily of fabrications that perpetuate a series of emotional and psychological provocations which, ultimately, restrict how we maneuver through and negotiate the social world. How to identify and alter these fabrications is perhaps the most common question that has come up in our groups so far and that is asked by patients who see me individually for psychotherapy.
Inducing and Being Induced: How to Recognize Dysfunctional Relationship DynamicsJames Tobin, Ph.D.
As a species, we are socialized from birth to compromise various aspects of one’s true identity in order to appeal to the primary caregiver. Consequently, we learn how to play roles in relationships very early in development. Yet, role-playing continues into adulthood and even across the lifespan. Every human interaction may be conceptualized from the vantage point of roles, as roles organize emotional experience, the hierarchy of power between individual s and groups, and the execution of tasks. Human relationships, therefore, revolve around inhibitions and resistances to authentic intimacy given that roles provide an architecture of human relatedness and fend off psychological fears and anxieties about closeness. In no other aspect of human life is this most apparent than in romantic relationships. We unconsciously coerce or “induce” others to act in accordance with our role preference, and in turn we are coerced or induced to act in accordance with the role preferences of others. These induced roles quickly set into motion a sequence of interactions that constricts a person’s relational freedom, thus straight jacketing the person into a role that, over time, becomes quite rigid and constraining. Understanding these induction processes, as well as the unconscious longings that generate them, are perhaps the most important keys to having fulfilling, surprising, and viable relationships. In this presentation, I will discuss these induction processes, explain why they are so prevalent, and offer my thoughts on how they may be avoided and/or dissolved.
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2. • Until about 1800AD the most important
course in a student’s college career was moral
philosophy, or what today we call ethics.
• The course was taken as the crowning unit in
the senior year, usually taught by the college
president himself
3. • Resurgence – fashionable but transient
• Preventive in Approach – “avoid being caught”
• Tends to be more in a social context than with an individual’s quest
for personal virtuosity
• It is taught presuming man is inherently good not prone to wrong.
Individual hypocrisy, selfishness, cruelty and envy are merely
glanced at or ignored.
• Paradox: Education has sought a value neutral world eradicating
terms of right and wrong as judgmental lest someone be offended.
4. We Seek to Address Symptoms not Causes
The founders had a consensus of convictions evil was real.
Checks and balances were necessary in life.
Senator Moynihan “Americans have “defined deviancy down”
Dostoyevsky “If God is dead, and there is no future life
nothing would be immoral any longer, everything would be
permitted”
Traditional definitions of “virtues and vices” that address the
unique value of every individual yet the conscious effort to
resist the heavy gravity of the presence and power of evil have
faded away from the conscious of the culture.
5. VIRTUES
An awkward word filled with
connotations of stiff self
righteousness or
judgmentalism
Suffers the danger of legalism
and moralism
Start somewhere with
definitions to roll back the
confusion and fog! – tradition
can help
VICES
An awkward word out of date
only mentioned of the Police
Vice Squad – gambling,
prostitution etc.
A word really meant to
address the loss of self control
Example of all types of
“anonymous” recovery groups
6. Greek & Roman
Philosophers
▪ “virtue was that excellence
which causes something to
perform its purpose well” –
“virtue of a horse or a sharp
blade”
▪ Example: “vice” was a
matter of excess or deficit –
to face death too much fear
a coward (deficit) too little
fear (excess) reckless –
right amount - courage
Old and New Testament
– out of which came 7
deadly sins – after
centuries of reflection
▪ Pride
▪ Envy
▪ Anger
▪ Sloth
▪ Avarice
▪ Gluttony
▪ Lust
7. ▪ Pride: Self-absorption
▪ Envy: Wanting what others have with resentment
▪ Anger: Willing of harm and destruction of others verbally
or physically
▪ Sloth: lethargy towards God, the good, the ideal
▪ Avarice: Grasping on to earthly possessions
▪ Gluttony: to consume too much of anything
▪ Lust: the desire for every attractive body
8. Avoid confusing pride with self respect or justified self
confidence
Pride over does it with self esteem or positive self image
building
Conceit, superiority, egotistical, presumptuous, vane,
boastful, self centered, arrogance, Narcissist – lover of
self
Group pride – nationalism, tribalism, racism
9. GOOD PRIDE
That wholesome feeling of
achievement due to effort
and self sacrifice
Reasonable self confidence
or justifiable self-respect.
Honored for having
achieved an honorable
name, reputation, or skill
INJURIOUS PRIDE
Pride: the quality of having
an excessively high opinion
of oneself or one's
importance.
Arrogance, vanity, self-
importance, hubris,
conceit, self-love, self-
admiration, narcissism,
egotism, haughtiness,
snobbery, antipathy,
contempt
10. “Poor in Spirit” – word for destitute or bankrupt
False humility
▪ Avoid passive doormat mentality
▪ It is not a masked resentment – passive aggressive
behavior – begging to be pitied
The Ideal
▪ Example – Franz Joseph Emperor of Austria – door
closed to church at his funeral when announced with
all his exalted titles – door opened when stated “a
poor sinner humbly begging God’s mercy”
▪ A Steward not an Owner of one’s skills, position, and
property
12. GOOD ENVY
Emulate: match or surpass
(a person or achievement),
typically by imitation. Sir
Isaac Newton “If I have
seen a little farther, it is
because I have stood on the
shoulders of giants”
That wholesome feeling of
gladness and admiration
that someone succeeded
even though you did not
INJURIOUS ENVY
Dejection to disparagement to
self destruction due to
another’s good fortune
Envy rises from an aggrieved
sense of inferiority
Jealousy comes from an
aggrieved sense of one’s due
Usually near us fellow
workers, fellow parents, etc.
It tends to be highly
subjective.
Envy worsens with age
Envy often starts over petty
things
13. What does this person have I do not?
A vice not enjoyed unless one enjoys being embittered by
comparing the possessions or position of others with what
one does not have.
Discontent or resentment aroused by someone else's
possessions, qualities, or luck.
Worse cases include arson, assassination, and vandalism. We
want what someone else has or covet.
Schadenfreude: a feeling of enjoyment that comes from
seeing or hearing about the troubles of other people
14. Mourning over the misfortune of others
Sympathetic or empathy rather than apathy or antipathy
Compassion not rank comparison
Rejoice with those who rejoice – glad of someone’s good fortune
not mad or sad!
Example: In Les Miserables - Jean Valjean’s resentment of envy
dissolves into a mourning penitence after receiving the two silver
candlesticks restoring to him life and liberty. A life changing
mourning.
John Wesley’s in Methodism strict prohibition against the sin of
gossip known as the bastard child of envy
16. Harmful to self and others
A vice enjoyed at times. Synonyms: Rage, wrath, ire, indignation
The concept of anger goes beyond being a natural reactive emotion but
adds the element of the will. It is a vice when the will surrenders to it or
acts upon it.
Anger is different from the concept of being justifiable outraged at
reckless or irresponsible behavior or evil. Example: At tomb of Lazarus
Christ deeply moved in spirit uses the strongest Greek word for anger.
He was angry his beloved friend had been taken by the evil of death.
Justifiable outrage disintegrates into anger when it is so strong that it
overrules the love of God or healthy love of our neighbor or self.
Example: We may be justifiably angry someone hurt our relative. Anger
expresses itself as a vigilante aimed take individual personal revenge. It
puts at risk a host of other people including our self to even greater
unintended consequences.
17. Use of the will – one yields to the intoxication of the emotion. The sense
of anger is near the area of the brain associated with pleasure. This
location does not excuse anger but it does take a determined will
elsewhere in the mind to resist.
Wrongness of the motive: Entitled – I am owed! Self-pitied –I do not
deserve this! I will not take this!
Excess of the expression – Uncontrollable – the mind like a fire can
combust into greater and greater intensity- Example Washington
tempered his anger early in life by repeatedly rewriting the 110 rules on
a translated French book on civility.
Revenge – a perverse desire for justice that obsesses. What can I do to
inflict greater injury on my offender?
Contempt – antipathy – the need to degrade another and deny them
any sense of worth or personhood. Profane language conveys this
attitude. It has become more and more expressed in the culture.
19. Other names: Insults, domestic violence, lawsuits, road rage,
workplace violence, homicide, genocide
Anger of another may stop me, change course, raise my stress level
and those I know but I have been wounded. My response may evoke
anger in me and usually it does. Anger alerts me to an obstruction
of my will
Seneca a Roman writer, philosopher, author – a stoic – ordered by
Nero to kill himself – next to Cicero his writings in influence in
drama, physics, and ethics. Writes of the end result of anger to
individuals, kings, and countries “no plague has cost the human
race more dear…keep ourselves from anger. It is harmful for all who
service it”.
20. Meekness is not weakness. Being a peacemaker does not mean being a pacifist or being passive.
These two attributes have incalculable strengths
Meekness has no sense of inferiority to try to pacify. Neither is it powerless to try to expose a
proved wrong.
Meekness and peacemaking move beyond the negative (anger) to the positive (gentleness,
forbearance, and reconciliation).
C.S. Lewis’s essay on forgiveness. Martin Luther King Jr essay on love.
Love: An attitude as a noun (the will) , the verb love (puts forth visible effort as a result of the
will), and the noun love (an emotion or feeling that usually follows but does not usually preceded
except in the case of compassion). The initiator who loves and the receiver who benefits.
21. Anger
the Vice
Meekness
Peacemaking
the Virtue
Choice
Choice about
Offenses
Anger – the
Vice
No Forgiveness
Contempt
Wrath
Hate
Meekness
Peacemaking
– the Virtue
Forgiveness
Forbearance
Love
“It is my offense. I can
do what I want to with
it” – Jean Valjean upon
being spat upon by an
angry accuser decides
not to press charges.
The police in the room
(the law) seeks to arrest
for assault on a public
official.
22. Book Review
Vice andVirtue in an Age of Moral Confusion
by Os Guiness - Chapters 4 to 7
▪ Sloth: lethargy towardsGod, the good, the ideal
▪ Avarice: Grasping on to earthly possessions
▪ Gluttony: to consume too much of anything
▪ Lust: the desire for every attractive body
24. ▪ Sin of the Spirit Like Pride, Envy, and Anger,
▪ It is a Sin of Omission
▪ Absence of Positive Behavior
▪ Not Roman or Greek Uniquely Christian
▪ More than insolence
▪ More than physical laziness
▪ More than lethargy
▪ More than carefree lingering with family or friends
▪ Conscious effort to give up on the pursuit of God, the spiritual,
the true, the good, the transcendent, and the beautiful.
▪ Above are considered dull, boring, mundane, worthless for self
▪ Hatred of all things spiritual that require effort
25. Listlessness of life
Despondency over meaning
Moral burnout
Directionless wandering
Paralysis of the will
Blasé boredom
Endure no hardship
Example: Jews who refused to conquer the promise land
Ultimate despair and sense of futility
26. Sloth the climate of the modern age – Solzhenitsyn “ US difficulties not
imprisonment, hard labor, death, government harassment, and censorship but
cupidity, boredom, sloppiness, indifference. Not the acts of a mighty, all
pervading, repressive government but the failure of a listless public to make use
of the freedom that is its birthright”
Popular music – aloof, indifference to real joy or real tragedy – “whatever” a
continued effort to find meaning from its own meaningless
Lack of a sense of purpose, meaning, passion, and mission in life
27. Socrates:The unexamined life is not worth living
Pascal 1623-62 – “Pensees” – a mandate of sense of mission in life of purpose to be discovered
especially in light of eternity
Soren Kierkegaard 1813-1855 – “On the Wickedness of the Age” –The need to have passion –
passion for passion. Men's thoughts tend to be shallow.The need to experience life – thus
movement into existentialism. Died at 42 yet had tremendous influence.
Dorothy L Sayers 1893-1957 – sloth a sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know
nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, loves nothing, hates nothing, loves for nothing.
It remains alive because there is nothing it would die for.
Steve Covey - 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – starts with the end in mind where one
imagines their funeral. How does one wish to be remembered?
Vaclav Havel – 1936 – “the temptation of nothingness is enormous and omnipresent”
Napoleon – “I may lose battles; but no one will ever see me lose minutes, either by over
confidence or sloth”
28. “Blessed are those who hunger for righteousness for they shall be
satisfied” – “first seek the kingdom of God”
Mission such as ask, seek, knock indicates finding is on the horizon and is
a determined life that seeks answers and thus overcomes sloth.
Hunger is an instinct especially when fulfilled rightfully and appropriate.
Such pursuit implies no time to get bogged down in materialism, drug
fixes, sex, or other vain excesses. Socially approved ambition.
WinstonChurchill – “What is our aim?Victory!”
29. After pride avarice is ranked second among the 7 deadly sins.
Synonyms: greed, covetousness
Avarice attempts to get what we do not have and keep what we do have.
Things are good in themselves it is when they the desire for temporal possessions becomes
inordinate, excessive, unwarranted, unreasonable, disproportionate
Stinginess and waste are the same - avarice
Money is hard to get, hard to keep, mourned when lost, does not live up to its expected reward
The person practicing avarice – he may not last or the wealth may not last due to some epic
catastrophe
Possession is thus an illusion. Even Alexander the Great had his hands show outside his coffin to
show even he could not take his wealth with him
Avarice invites a sober judgment – one is own by his possessions – for Dante the seven daughters
of Avarice – treachery, restlessness, fraud, perjury, deceit, inhumanity, and violence.
31. John Bunyan’s Pilgrim Progress: Pilgrim goes to a town called Love-Gain and
meets men such as Mr. Hold theWorld, Mr. Money-Love, and Mr. Save-All.
Chaucer: Story of “The Pardoner’s Prologue” – one who sold indulgences.
Preaching against greed while his own motivation is avarice.
Tolstoy: “How Much Land Does a Man Need?” – how the desire to have more and
more land led to his untimely death – the only land he ended up achieving was 6
feet for his grave site.
Langdon Brown Gilkey – On his interment inWWII Japanese camp along with Eric
Liddell hero of Chariots of Fire. “Shantung Compound”. Avarice among the
different nationalities at the camp that meant everyone suffered deprivation.
The movieWall-Street : Mr Geko’s asserts “Greed is Good!”
32. Mercy goes beyond reason, justice, and natural expectation
Mercy’s answer to avarice’s “get what I do not have” – be content with what you
have
Mercy’s answer to avarice’s “keep what you have” – practice instead proactive
generosity
Avarice triggers further sins – fraud, treachery, violence – a culture of injury
Mercy quenches further sins – a culture of mending injuries rather than inflicting
one
Mercy loves both friend and foe. It does good to both.
Grace is a special aspect of mercy in that mercy is utterly unmerited and
undeserved. It bestows an unexpected unmerited generosity
33. Shakespeare’s “The Merchant ofVenice” – Portia’s classic response to Shylock who demands
justice of a pound of flesh. “The quality of mercy is not strained”
History: Unlike the Germans or Japanese ofWWII the Allied prisoners of war were treated
humanely with adequate food, shelter, and medical care – a practice seldom practiced by
opposing armies in wars
Victor Hugo – Les Miserables – JeanValjean who had stolen the night before the church’s silver is
presented by the arresting officer to confirm the matter. “Its all a mistake..Messierurs” says the
priest and the gendarmes leave.To the thief he states “Jean Valjean my friend before you go
away, here are your candlesticks you left; take them too…Jean Valjean is speechless…Jean
Valjean experiences grace. Instead of returning to a dreaded jail for the rest of his life as he
deserved he is experiences freedom and liberty from the loving priest who he had treated so
badly. It transforms him to abandon his former life of being a taker but an imitator of the loving
priest in thought and deed.
34. Self-Indulgence initially considering food but can be
broadened to a form of hedonism
Epicurean – let us eat, drink, and be merry for
tomorrow we may die
Gluttony abuses something essential for human
survival that has physical penalties.
Considered the least serious sin
In Medieval way five ways gluttony displayed
▪ Eating & drinking too soon
▪ Eating & drinking to expensively
▪ Eating & drinking too eagerly
▪ Eating & drinking too much
▪ Eating and drinking with too much fuss or uproar
36. Petronius – Latin writer died 66AD – describes gluttony in the court of
Nero
C.S. Lewis – Screwtape Letters
Henry Fairlie – “The Gluttony of Our age” – A food obsessed indulgent
culture – over gratification and attention where the mind is preoccupied
about eating too much, too little, the right stuff or the wrong stuff
Fredrick Buechner – “The Dwarves in the Stable”
37. Courage under suffering and persecution – blessed are those who are
persecuted for righteousness sake
Courage is doing that which is difficult or risky
Instead of self indulgence there is self-denial and self sacrifice
Gluttony seeks to consume yet in the end loses
Courage seeks to put at risk and deny consumption yet in the end wins
Courage requires dedication, discipline, patience, and hardship.Gluttony
does not ask any of these forms of self denial.
Deferred gratification or prudence
38. Thomas a Kempis – “Of Patient Suffering of Injuries andWrongs andWho
isTruly Patient” – be ready for battle if you would have victory – without
battle you cannot be crowned – if you desire to be crowned, resist
strongly and suffer patiently – without battle no man can come to victory
John the Cross – 1542- 1591 – “On the Divine Light” – for refusing to
abandon his convictions he under went severe suffering – imprisonment,
banishment, and resulting illnesses.A bit of a mystic he was canonized
by the RomanChurch in 1726.
39. Winston Churchill
Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer
Never, never, never give up
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is
the quality which guarantees all others
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that
counts
You have enemies? Good.That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life
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Courage
40. Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long
and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
One ought never to turn one's back on
a threatened danger and try to run
away from it. If you do that, you will
double the danger. But if you meet it
promptly and without flinching, you
will reduce the danger by half. Never
run away from anything. Never!
Courage
To do that which is difficult or risky
Winston Churchill
41. Lust gets dissected into components as promiscuity, pornography, adultery,
fornication, incest, seduction, prostitution, and rape.
Unethical and unrestrained expression of sexual fulfilment
The origins is just not a matter of reaction of the body but the thoughts of the
heart and mind
Wholesome in its original design and use sex achieves procreation and intimacy.
Outside of marriage it can prove to be a raging fire that ultimately consumes and
undermines its original design
43. Moliere 1622-1673 – a comic and artist – denied holy burial
for his banned plays – wrote Don Juan a obsessive and
unscrupulous pursuer of women
D H Lawrence – 1885-1930 – believed a sexual
permissiveness was a cure for human maladjustment –
involved in famous censorship cases (Lady Chatterly’s Lover -
1928) and prosecuted for obscenity.
44. Blessed are the pure of heart…
Lust is unethical and unrestrained. Purity of heart is the ethical and discipline
devotion of the heart
Lust binds and dissipates purity of heart is clear sighted and concentrated
focusing of strength
Pure means true, authentic, simple
Falling from the pure ideal one has available grace and forgiveness with
restoration to one who fails.
45. Aristotle – there is no such thing as committing adultery with the right woman, at
the right time, and in the right way for it is simply wrong
Augustine – 354-430AD – Confessions –
William F May – 1927 – “False Worship: Impurity of Heart”
46. I. Remember the place of discipline – training ourselves to do
what we cannot ordinarily do
II. Remember deception – our utility sin that assists all other
sinning
III. Remember the danger of moralism – our ugly counterfeit of
virtue
IV.Remember that differences make a difference – our
unwelcomed insistence in a day of pluralism
V. Remember demonstration – virtue embodied in action