Virtue and Vice

No one person can be all good or all evil. We each struggle to make right choices in the different situations of our lives. The Catholic Church teaches us about seven different motivations for sin in our lives – The Seven Deadly Sins. It also teaches about the Seven Virtues we should aspire to.

The seven deadly sins are Pride, Envy, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Greed and Slothfulness. The seven Virtues are Faith, Hope, Charity, Prudence, Justice, Fortitude and Temperance.

In life pride would look like a human being that walks with pride with their head held high and they are stood tall. In life today, envy would look like someone that is never happy with what they have in life. I believe that gluttony would look like somebody that is always littering and can just never throw there rubbish in the bin. In life lust would look like someone who is always raping people and sexual abuses them. In the world anger would look like a lion that is ready to pounce onto a human being. In life today, greed would look like someone who never shares and just hogs everything to themselves. I believe that slothfulness would look like someone who always bullies others and just watches bulling go on without stopping it.

In life faith would look like someone who is always concerned about things revealed by God. To me hope looks like someone who is always looking into the future. In life charity would look like every human being in the world donating one thing to a charity for the poor that have nothing. In life prudence would look like people being able to make their own decisions in life. Justice in the world would look like every living thing in the world being nice, kind and generous to each other. To me fortitude would look like someone that can curb their fears and moderate their daring. In life temperance would look like someone that can eat and drink with pleasure.