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Inflated Self-Image
Sometimes we are moved by compassion and think it zeal. We blame small things in others, and pass over greater things in ourselves. Quickly enough we ...
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Wanted: Better Self-Critics
It would be wonderful if St. Augustine's kind of confessional self-scrutiny (or that of St. John of the Cross in his Dark Night of the Soul) would ...
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Blindness to Badness
The real danger in our situation lies in the fact that so many people see clearly what they are revolting from and so few see at all what they are revolting ...
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Earnestness: Proof of Holiness?
One trouble with earnestness is that those who are possessed by it so often take it as proof certain that they are on God's side.
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Sin's Deception
When John Belushi died in the spring of 1983 of an overdose of cocaine and heroin, a variety of articles appeared, including one in U.S. News and World ...
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Blind to One's Own Faults
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
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Playing God
There are two sins of man that are bred in the bone, and that continually come out in the flesh. One is self-dependence and the other is self-exaltation. ...
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What Price Danger?
No one can quantify the risk of transmission [of AIDS] in the population at large. But whether it is one in ten or one in 10,000 for a single encounter, ...
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