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Definition: Pride is inordinate self-centredness, self-absorption, and self-esteem. Its the self filled with self and its most often borne out of insecurity. Unlike some of the other deadly sins, pride stands alone. While greed, lust, gluttony, sloth, envy and anger can bring people together, pride doesnt. By definition it divides, separates, it is enmity.
Dr. N. Plantinga, Calvin Seminary

The wicked snub GOD, their noses stuck high in the air. Their graffiti are scrawled on the walls: “Catch us if you can!” “God is dead.”
Psalm 10:4, MSG

First pride, then the crash– the bigger the ego, the harder the fall.
Proverbs 16:18, MSG

He [Jesus] told his next story to some who were complacently pleased with themselves over their moral performance and looked down their noses at the common people: “Two men went up to the Temple to pray, one a Pharisee, the other a tax man. The Pharisee posed and prayed like this: ‘Oh, God, I thank you that I am not like other people—robbers, crooks, adulterers, or, heaven forbid, like this tax man. I fast twice a week and tithe on all my income.’ “Meanwhile the tax man, slumped in the shadows, his face in his hands, not daring to look up, said, ‘God, give mercy. Forgive me, a sinner.’” Jesus commented, “This tax man, not the other, went home made right with God. If you walk around with your nose in the air, you’re going to end up flat on your face, but if you’re content to be simply yourself, you will become more than yourself.”
The Gospel of Luke 18:9-14, MSG

Yet man did not fall away to the extent of losing all his being; but when he had turned toward himself his being was less real that when he adhered to him who exists in supreme degree.
St. Augustine, City of God

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Definition: Sloth is a sad, restless and ungrateful boredom in the face of spiritual good. It is spiritual joylessness, carelessness, jadedness, thanklessness, unfruitfulness, lovelessness and hopelessness.

What its not inefficiency (being slow) resting or relaxing (theres a time and a place for this) times of depression or inability to proceed its not even mere laziness (its more restless than this more miserable more careless.)
Cornelius Plantinga, Theologian

A slothful person believes in nothing, enjoys nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, loves nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing and only remains alive because there is nothing he would die for.
Robert McCracken, What is Sin? What it Virtue?

Sloth makes what is of ultimate importance, not worth the effort.
Speaker/Writer Tony Campolo

So be careful how you live, not as fools but as those who are wise. Make the most of every opportunity for doing good in these evil days.
The Apostle Paul in his letter to the Ephesians, chapter 5:15-16

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nothing really matters to me
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Definition: Gluttony is the willful and insatiable desire to over consume, excessively elevate, and be preoccupied with that which God created for good. It is more interested in consuming than in what is being consumed.
Dr. Neal Plantinga, Calvin Theological Seminary

Don’t drink too much wine and get drunk; don’t eat too much food and get fat. Drunks and gluttons will end up on skid row, in a stupor and dressed in rags.
Proverbs 23:20-21, MSG

For it is possible that a wise man may use the daintiest food without any sin of epicurism or gluttony, while a fool will crave for the vilest food with a most disgusting eagerness of appetite. And any sane man would prefer eating fish after the manner of our Lord, to eating lentils after the manner of Esau, or barley after the manner of oxen. For there are several beasts that feed on commoner kinds of food, but it does not follow that they are more temperate than we are. For in all matters of this kind it is not the nature of the things we use, but our reason for using them, and our manner of seeking them, that make what we do either praiseworthy or blameable.
St.Augustine, Confessions

I fear not the uncleaness of meat, but the uncleaness of desire.
St. Augustine, Confessions

The spirit is willing, but the body is weak
Jesus in Matthew 26:41, NIV

Jesus said, “I am the Bread of Life. The person who aligns with me hungers no more and thirsts no more, ever.
John 6:35, MSG

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You homework is to unpack your last anger event. What happened? What set you off? How did you manifest your anger (externally, internally, with matches, or did you just stuff it)? What specifically did you feel in your anger? Think about that for a few minutes. And lastly, think about where God was when all of this played out.

Definition: Culpable anger is a vengeful or destructive passion, often uncontrolled, that flares up against a person or thing giving pain or frustration. This passion can be exhibited outwardly via an outburst or swallowed yielding resentment and potential bitterness.
Dr. N. Plantinga, Calvin Seminary Dean

(Anger is not simple vexation, mere frustration, firmness or assertiveness, or righteous indignation).

God is a righteous judge, a God who expresses his wrath every day.
The poet in Psalm 7:11, NIV

The LORD is a jealous and avenging God; the LORD takes vengeance and is filled with wrath. The LORD takes vengeance on his foes and maintains his wrath against his enemies.
The prophet Nahum 1:2

But the LORD is the true God; he is the living God, the eternal King. When he is angry, the earth trembles; the nations cannot endure his wrath.
The prophet Jeremiah 10:10, NIV

Jesus went straight to the Temple and threw out everyone who had set up shop, buying and selling. He kicked over the tables of loan sharks and the stalls of dove merchants. He quoted this text: My house was designated a house of prayer; You have made it a hangout for thieves.
Matthew 21:12-14, MSG

“An eye for and eye leaves the whole world blind.”
Mahatma Gandhi

I will take vengeance. I will repay those who deserve it.”
God in Hebrews 10:30

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