Food For Thought

[Saint_or_Not]

*** Only Speaking for myself, I found this list posted below to be very humbling, Mainly because I, most of my life have been guilty of them all and still struggle with most. In striving to live a more perfect life, I discovered this list of Vices and now I have a target so to speak that I can identify and use to see where I have been wrong with others. I am only sharing this with you so that like me you may find it has useful.

We know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold under sin. I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. Now if I do what I do not want, I agree that the law is good. So then it is no longer I that do it, but sin which dwells within me. For I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh. I can will what is right, but I cannot do it. For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I do. Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I that do it, but sin which dwells within me.
So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. For I delight in the law of God, in my inmost self, but I see in my members another law at war with the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin which dwells in my members. Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! *So then, I of myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
Rom 7: 14-25

Saint Thomas Aquinas taught that “absolutely speaking, the sin surpasses the vice in wickedness” . On the other hand, even after a person’s sins have been forgiven, the underlying habit (the vice) may remain. Just as vice was created in the first place by repeatedly yielding to the temptation to sin, so vice may be removed only by repeatedly resisting temptation and performing virtuous acts; the more entrenched the vice, the more time and effort needed to remove it. Saint Thomas Aquinas says that following rehabilitation and the acquisition of virtues, the vice does not persist as a habit, but rather as a mere disposition, and one that is in the process of being eliminated.

absent-mindedness
addiction
aggression
alcoholism
animosity
antagonism
apathy
arrogance
bigotry
bitterness
caprice
carelessness
cowardice
corruption
cruelty
denial
dependence
despair
despondency
diffidence
dishonesty
dishonor
disloyalty
disrespectfulness
drunkenness
excess
favoritism
flippancy
flightiness
foolishness
greed
hatred
hostility
ignorance
indecision
indulgence
inequality
ingratitude
injustice
insincerity
intemperance
immodesty
immorality
impatience
impiety
improvidence
irresponsibility
laziness
licentiousness
lightmindedness
malevolence
malice
misandry
misogyny
moral relativism
omissiveness
officiousness
paranoia
parasitism
permissiveness
perversion
poor judgment
prejudice
presumptuousness
pride(hubris)
procrastination
purposelessness
Racism
rashness
ruthlessness
secretiveness
self-degradation
selfishness
sensuality
shortsightedness
slackness
slavery
stinginess
stubbornness
stupidity
tactlessness
treachery
unfairness
unforgiveness
unkindness
unscrupulousness
unsophistication
vanity
violence
wantonness
weakness
wiliness

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Please Pray:

“O Dearest Sacred Heart Of Jesus, May The Entire World Be Inflamed and Burn With Love For Thee” Amen

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[PJM]

This quite a list!

 Am I overwhelmed by it; NO!

 Why is that?

 I their were no sin I would have great difficulty in proving to 
 God, that I really do love Him.

 **Romans 5: "18	 Then as one man's trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one man's act of righteousness leads to acquittal and life for all men. 19*  For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by one man's obedience many will be made righteous. 20*  Law came in, to increase the trespass; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more**, 21*  so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. "