Virtues, Vices, and Moral Formation
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Virtues, Vices, and Moral Formation
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Virtues, Vices, and Moral Formation
Entitlement
The entitled heart has forgotten that everything is mercy.
Virtues, Vices, and Moral Formation
Envy of the Wicked
Do not envy what cannot survive judgment.
Virtues, Vices, and Moral Formation
False Humility
Humility is not a performance of smallness; it is submission to God.
Virtues, Vices, and Moral Formation
Flattery
False praise is not love; it is bait.
Virtues, Vices, and Moral Formation
Holy Boldness
Boldness is holy only when it is governed by truth and love.
Virtues, Vices, and Moral Formation
Boasting
Boasting is the ego trying to secure glory that belongs to God.
Virtues, Vices, and Moral Formation
Chastity
A culture that cannot say no to desire is not liberated; it is enslaved with better marketing.
Virtues, Vices, and Moral Formation
Compassion
Sentiment that refuses costly mercy is not compassion; it is self-protective emotion posing as virtue.
Virtues, Vices, and Moral Formation
Compassion as Virtue
Compassion without truth becomes indulgence; truth without compassion becomes cruelty.
Virtues, Vices, and Moral Formation
Contentment
Contentment is war against the lie that God has withheld the one thing necessary for obedience today.
Virtues, Vices, and Moral Formation
Correction
Correction feels offensive to the self because it threatens the illusion that the self is already wise.
Virtues, Vices, and Moral Formation
Courage
Biblical courage is not pretending danger is small. It is deciding God is greater.
Virtues, Vices, and Moral Formation
Cowardice
Cowardice is fear enthroned. It demands safety as lord and calls obedience too expensive.
Virtues, Vices, and Moral Formation
Deceit
Every lie is an attempt to edit God’s world without God’s permission.
Virtues, Vices, and Moral Formation
Diligence
Laziness lies about duty; work-idolatry lies about worth. Diligence refuses both lies.
Virtues, Vices, and Moral Formation
Encouragement
Encouragement is not flattery.
Virtues, Vices, and Moral Formation
Faithful Speech
Faithful speech is not merely saying true things.
Virtues, Vices, and Moral Formation
Faithfulness
The test of faithfulness is not what you start loudly, but what you keep obeying when applause disappears.
Virtues, Vices, and Moral Formation
Foolishness
Biblical foolishness is not merely being uninformed; it is living as though God is irrelevant.
Virtues, Vices, and Moral Formation
Generosity
The ungenerous heart is not merely cautious; it is often confessing that possessions feel safer than God.
Virtues, Vices, and Moral Formation
Gentleness
Gentleness is power refusing to become cruel just because it is right.
Virtues, Vices, and Moral Formation
Gluttony
Gluttony is the body being invited to rule what God gave it to serve.
Virtues, Vices, and Moral Formation
Gossip
Gossip makes another person’s life into entertainment, leverage, or self-protection, and then pretends it is concern.
Virtues, Vices, and Moral Formation
Gratitude
Ingratitude is not a minor emotional lapse; it is the creature enjoying gifts while ignoring the Giver.
Virtues, Vices, and Moral Formation
Greed
Greed rarely says, “I worship money.” It says, “I just need a little more to be safe.”
Virtues, Vices, and Moral Formation
Hardness of Heart
A hard heart can sit under truth, sing hymns, hear warnings, and still refuse to yield.
Virtues, Vices, and Moral Formation
Harshness
Truth spoken with fleshly contempt may reveal more about the speaker’s sin than the hearer’s error.
Virtues, Vices, and Moral Formation
Humility
Humility is reality. Pride is the hallucination.
Virtues, Vices, and Moral Formation
Hypocrisy
Hypocrisy is religion used as makeup for the corpse of an unrepentant heart.
Virtues, Vices, and Moral Formation
Impatience
Impatience is often unbelief in a hurry.
Virtues, Vices, and Moral Formation
Ingratitude
Ingratitude is spiritual amnesia with moral consequences.
Virtues, Vices, and Moral Formation
Integrity
Integrity is who you are when image has no audience left to impress.
Virtues, Vices, and Moral Formation
Laziness
Laziness quietly demands harvest without faithfulness.
Virtues, Vices, and Moral Formation
Listening
Listening is moral before it is conversational.
Virtues, Vices, and Moral Formation
Lust
Lust is not love with intensity; it is desire dethroning God, reducing persons to use, and pretending the body is ownerless.
Virtues, Vices, and Moral Formation
Meekness
Meekness is not having no strength; it is refusing to use strength as self-worship.
Virtues, Vices, and Moral Formation
Mercy
Mercy that lies about sin is not mercy; it is cruelty with a soft voice.
Virtues, Vices, and Moral Formation
Mockery
Mockery is not strength.
Virtues, Vices, and Moral Formation
Modesty
Immodesty is not only about clothing; it is the whole self demanding to be looked at.
Virtues, Vices, and Moral Formation
Moral Justice
If your justice has no fear of God, it will soon become revenge with a moral costume.
Virtues, Vices, and Moral Formation
Partiality
Partiality is the courtroom of the heart accepting bribes.
Virtues, Vices, and Moral Formation
Patience
Patience is faith stretched across time without snapping into unbelief.
Virtues, Vices, and Moral Formation
Pride
Pride is the soul swelling against reality.
Virtues, Vices, and Moral Formation
Rebuke
A faithful rebuke is not cruelty.
Virtues, Vices, and Moral Formation
Sarcasm
Sarcasm often hides contempt behind cleverness.
Virtues, Vices, and Moral Formation
Self-Control
Lack of self-control reveals that some appetite has been given voting rights over obedience.
Virtues, Vices, and Moral Formation
Self-Pity
Self-Pity must bow before God rather than govern the heart.
Virtues, Vices, and Moral Formation
Slander
Slander is not just negative talk.
Virtues, Vices, and Moral Formation
Stubbornness
Stubbornness is pride with its jaw clenched.
Virtues, Vices, and Moral Formation
Teachability
The unteachable heart does not merely lack data; it protects pride from truth.
Virtues, Vices, and Moral Formation
Temperance
An appetite that cannot hear no has already started preaching another gospel.
Virtues, Vices, and Moral Formation
Vanity
Vanity makes a mirror into a shrine and other people into worshipers.
Virtues, Vices, and Moral Formation
Wrathfulness
Wrathfulness feels powerful because it lets the creature pretend to be judge, jury, and executioner.
Virtues, Vices, and Moral Formation
Manipulation
Control by deception is still rebellion, even when it sounds gentle.
Virtues, Vices, and Moral Formation
Moral Cowardice
Fear of man is a poor shepherd of the conscience.
Virtues, Vices, and Moral Formation
Respectability
A clean image cannot cleanse a proud heart.