Damian Patterson

“They find detachment from the old selfish nature too difficult, painful, and burdensome, so they neglect to perform the actions that would maintain and deepen relationships of love. They harden their hearts toward any change that requires sacrifice or surrender on their part.”
― Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung, Glittering Vices: A New Look at the Seven Deadly Sins and Their Remedies

“The task of prophetic imagination is to cut through the numbness, to penetrate the self-deception, so that the God of endings is confessed as Lord. Notice that I suggest for the prophet in a really numbed situation a quite elemental and modest task.”
― Walter Brueggemann, Prophetic Imagination

“Rather than wanting to be excellent—like the prideful—or to be honored for our worthiness—like the ambitious—in vainglory we seek only the “manifestation of excellence,” that is, we want more than anything to be well known and widely known.”
― Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung, Glittering Vices: A New Look at the Seven Deadly Sins and Their Remedies

“When careers replace religion as a source of meaning, worth, and identity, laziness still carries significant weight. Our society measures personal worth in terms of productivity, efficiency, and the maximization of our potential. So we’d better get busy, or we’ll be good for nothing.”
― Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung, Glittering Vices: A New Look at the Seven Deadly Sins and Their Remedies