Little Sins Mean a Lot: Kicking Our Bads Habits Before They Kick Us
Most of us at one time have said, or thought, something like:

  • “So I procrastinate, it's not like it's hurting anyone!”
  • “Enough about you, back to me.”
  • “I deserve this, so I'm treating myself!”
  • “If I can't have it, she shouldn't either.”
  • “I'll get around to it… or not.”
  • “It's not really gossip if it's all true, right?”
  • (And the granddaddy of them all) “But that doesn't make me a bad person!”

Are these really sins, you ask? After all, they're not murder, theft, or violence. Don't they just mean we're human?

Writer, speaker, and blogger Elizabeth Scalia takes a look at thirteen of these “little sins” that, if left unexamined and unconfessed, can have a serious impact on our spiritual lives and relationship with Christ. Through her honest (and sometimes funny) examination of these same sins in her own life, as well as Church teaching on each one, she helps us ask ourselves the tough questions, and the tools to kick these bad habits before they kick us.

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Little Sins Mean a Lot: Kicking Our Bads Habits Before They Kick Us
Most of us at one time have said, or thought, something like:

  • “So I procrastinate, it's not like it's hurting anyone!”
  • “Enough about you, back to me.”
  • “I deserve this, so I'm treating myself!”
  • “If I can't have it, she shouldn't either.”
  • “I'll get around to it… or not.”
  • “It's not really gossip if it's all true, right?”
  • (And the granddaddy of them all) “But that doesn't make me a bad person!”

Are these really sins, you ask? After all, they're not murder, theft, or violence. Don't they just mean we're human?

Writer, speaker, and blogger Elizabeth Scalia takes a look at thirteen of these “little sins” that, if left unexamined and unconfessed, can have a serious impact on our spiritual lives and relationship with Christ. Through her honest (and sometimes funny) examination of these same sins in her own life, as well as Church teaching on each one, she helps us ask ourselves the tough questions, and the tools to kick these bad habits before they kick us.

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Little Sins Mean a Lot: Kicking Our Bads Habits Before They Kick Us

Little Sins Mean a Lot: Kicking Our Bads Habits Before They Kick Us

by Elizabeth Scalia
Little Sins Mean a Lot: Kicking Our Bads Habits Before They Kick Us

Little Sins Mean a Lot: Kicking Our Bads Habits Before They Kick Us

by Elizabeth Scalia

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Overview

Most of us at one time have said, or thought, something like:

  • “So I procrastinate, it's not like it's hurting anyone!”
  • “Enough about you, back to me.”
  • “I deserve this, so I'm treating myself!”
  • “If I can't have it, she shouldn't either.”
  • “I'll get around to it… or not.”
  • “It's not really gossip if it's all true, right?”
  • (And the granddaddy of them all) “But that doesn't make me a bad person!”

Are these really sins, you ask? After all, they're not murder, theft, or violence. Don't they just mean we're human?

Writer, speaker, and blogger Elizabeth Scalia takes a look at thirteen of these “little sins” that, if left unexamined and unconfessed, can have a serious impact on our spiritual lives and relationship with Christ. Through her honest (and sometimes funny) examination of these same sins in her own life, as well as Church teaching on each one, she helps us ask ourselves the tough questions, and the tools to kick these bad habits before they kick us.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781612789040
Publisher: Our Sunday Visitor, Publishing Division
Publication date: 03/22/2016
Pages: 144
Sales rank: 806,081
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.38(d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 11

Introduction 13

Chapter 1 Procrastination 20

Chapter 2 Excessive Self-Interest 30

Chapter 3 Self-Neglect 40

Chapter 4 "Treat Yo'self!": When Small Indulgences Take Over 53

Chapter 5 Gossip 64

Chapter 6 Judgement and Suspicion 74

Chapter 7 Gloominess and Griping 84

Chapter 8 Deliberate Spite or Passive Aggression 94

Chapter 9 Clinging to Our Narratives Beyond Their Usefulness 104

Chapter 10 Half-Assing It, aka "Phoning It In" 115

Chapter 11 Cheating 125

Chapter 12 Sins of Omission 136

Chapter 13 Self-Recrimination 146

Conclusion 156

Notes 160

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