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  • The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter.

    Fun   Book   Pride  
  • Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is sloth. LinkedIn is greed.

    Greed   Ego   Sloth  
    "Reid Hoffman", www.wsj.com. June 23, 2011.
  • Satanists are encouraged to indulge in the seven deadly sins, as they need hurt no one; they were only invented by the Christian Church to insure guilt on the part of its followers.

    "The Satanic Bible". Book by Anton Szandor LaVey, 1969.
  • The mind is left bereft when it is nothing more than a tool of regurgitation.

    Corey Taylor (2012). “Seven Deadly Sins: Settling the Argument Between Born Bad and Damaged Good”, p.99, Da Capo Press
  • In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.

    Envy   May   Sin  
    Joseph Epstein (2003). “Envy: The Seven Deadly Sins”, p.1, Oxford University Press
  • All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, averice and sloth know some gratification, while anger and pride have power, even though that power eventually destroys itself. Envy is impotent, numbed with fear, never ceasing in its appetite, and it knows no gratification, but endless self torment. It has the ugliness of a trapped rat, which gnaws its own foot in an effort to escape.

    Pride   Feet   Self  
  • But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.

    Wrath   Lust   Next  
    Edward Abbey (2006). “Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast”
  • I am Envy...I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.

    Book   Envy   Wish  
  • Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice.

  • I am Envy, begotten of a chimney-sweeper and an oyster-wife. I cannot read, and therefore wish all books were burnt; I am lean with seeing others eat - O that there would come a famine through all the world, that all might die, and I live alone; then thou should'st see how fat I would be! But must thou sit and I stand? Come down, with a vengeance!

    Book   Oysters   Envy  
    Christopher Marlowe, David Wootton (2005). “Doctor Faustus: With The English Faust Book”, p.36, Hackett Publishing
  • Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues - faith and hope.

    Charles Dickens, Ich ([pseud.].) (1856). “Immortelles from Charles Dickens”, p.112
  • The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

    Samuel Butler (1950). “The Essential Samuel Butler”, London : J. Cape
  • You can hear the seven sins Blowin' through the ghetto wind.

    Rap   Ghetto   Wind  
  • Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back--in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you.

    Kings   Fun   Pain  
    FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Mar 19, 2014
  • Go to hell, Willy, our souls eat poetry, but one has seven deadly sins to feed!

    Soul   Sin   Hell  
  • Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light.

    Power   Light   Long  
    Paradise Lost bk. 2, l. 432 (1667)
  • Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.

    Fun   Envy   Sin  
  • The future is meant for those who are willing to let go of the worst parts of the past. When you cannot take two steps without turning around to inspect your footsteps, you are getting nowhere fast.

    Letting Go   Past   Two  
  • Searching for a better description of this rotting sadness, I came upon the concept of acedia. In Christian theology, it’s an antecedent to sloth, the least sexy of the seven deadly sins. Thomas Aquinas winnowed it down for me: acedia is sorrow so complete that the flesh prevails completely over the spirit. You don’t just turn your back on the world, you turn your back on God. You don’t care, and you don’t care that you don’t care.

  • Acedia is sorrow so complete that the flesh pervails completely over the spirit. You don't just turn your back on the world, you turn your back on God. You don't care, and you don't care that you don't care.

    Sorrow   World   Care  
  • No band on 21st-century radio has mined pre-grunge hair-metal's sleaze like L.A.'s Buckcherry. So it makes poetic sense that they'd spend their sixth album tallying all seven deadly sins.

  • The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.

    Money   Children   Men  
    George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.1472, e-artnow
  • In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins.

    Elizabeth Goudge (2012). “The Rosemary Tree”, p.76, Hachette UK
  • I feel like a goddess, jailed in her Olympus. Little wonder how the gods toyed with humans. Toyed with women, to watch them squirm, pollinate the seeds of despair; toyed with men, to satiate their Seven Deadly Sins.

    Men   Despair   Olympus  
    Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Glass”, p.476, Simon and Schuster
  • According to Gandhi, the seven sins are wealth without works, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, and politics without principle. Well, Hubert Humphrey may have sinned in the eyes of God, as we all do, but according to those definitions of Gandhi's, it was Hubert Humphrey without sin.

    United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1978). “Jimmy Carter”
  • Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?

    Sin   Conflict   Seven  
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