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ANGER—we love ourselves too much 54

Sinful anger “happens when we misperceive reality as unacceptable, when we are so blinded by our self-consumed loves that we want to annihilate anything that doesn’t serve us…we respond in a manner disproportionate to the facts, forcing everyone around us to interpret the world on our terms, based upon what we love most—which is too often the object in the mirror” 53

May be best explanation of ENVY I’ve ever read. The authors have shown how these 7 branch into a myriad of other sins. Massively convicting 🔥 If we really stop to intimately examine our struggles, they align with 1 or more of these 7 deadly sins.

“The harder [the envious] try to compete and the more deeply they lust for the happiness of another, the more it eludes them” (42).

🆓 @ Desiring God

Intro: why these have historically been considered the “7 deadly sins” & why the “ranking of sin obscured the fact that all sin, small or great, is rebellion,” but it does “help us see and defeat our darkest inclinations” (19, 20)

The 7 “are all woefully inadequate substitutes for the wonder, beauty, and affection of God” (13)

PRIDE: reminds of Keller’s Self-Forgetfulness book; so good the ch is

this is such a good short read… taking so many notes wow

pride chapter hit me like a ton of bricks! but thank goodness “all pride will be consumed in that great flame of praise”

fm72 speaker on the 7 deadly sins of mammon last night was so timely with how far i am into this book. convicting thing to think about what I give my life to!

“The purpose of our daily work is not to protect our comforts, but to support God’s work in the church.”

i mean wowowow!!!! one of those books that you have to stop after every sentence and read it again bc it’s just that good—at least that’s what i’ve been doing!

“pride is the essence of all sin. it contends for supremacy with God himself in setting itself in opposition to God. it attempts to elevate the sinner above God.”

i have a good feeling about this one