Tag Archives: Self-Discipline
In the Vein of Being Public with My Goals
Posted on 02. May, 2010 by Deb.
It’s Sunday morning. It’s the perfect day for sleeping in thanks to the cloudy skies and the almost-rainy feeling in the air, My body is doing that lanquid pull back to my bed, insisting that the mattress is what Goldilocks would wish for (not too soft but not too hard) and the sheets have that [...]
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The Learning of a Heavenly Virtue
Posted on 08. May, 2009 by Deb.
Early Christian teachings focused on seven deadly, or cardinal, sins: lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy and pride. In 410, Prudentius wrote of the battle between these sins and “heavenly virtues” in his epic Psychomachia. The Roman Catholic Church officially recognized the virtues in positive contrast to the sins. These virtues are: chastity, temperance, charity, [...]