The program of action is outlined (59:8-60:1). We are encouraged to make progress towards the ideals set down (60:2-9). The conceptual basis for the first two steps are reiterated (60:10-13). We are given a method to determine if we are at the third step (60:14). The results of living a life based on self-will are described (60:16-64:3). The root of our troubles is disclosed (62:2-9). The severity of, and solution to our troubles is laid out (62:11-14). Why and how to find this solution is related (62:15-21). The benefits of applying this solution are promised (63:1-7). The directions or beginning the Third Step are given (63:8-13). The proper time to begin our Fourth Step, the attitude to adopt while working on it and the reasons this step is necessary is spelled out (63:18-64:3). The similarity between a business inventory and our moral inventory is shown (64:4-12). The directions for the first three columns of the Forth Step resentment list are found (64:13-65:7). A pause in which to view the people we have been mad at in a new way is suggested (65:8-67:10). The instructions for the Fourth column of our resentment list are given (67:11-19). A method by which we may examine and begin to out grow our fears is suggested (67:20-68:23). Our sex problems may be addressed by applying the program of action detailed (68:24-70:22). The chapter is summarized (70:17-23). The author's hopes are related (71:1-3).
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St Francis says: "There is no need to fear that knowledge of His gifts will make us proud if only we remember this truth that none of the good in us comes from ourselves. What good do we posses which we have not received? And if we have received it why do we glory in it? On the contrary, a lively consideration of graces received makes us humble because knowledge of them begets gratitude for them."
Acedia: Indifference to one's responsibilities to God and man. Laziness or indifference in religious matters.
Abusive: Using harsh words or ill treatment.
Agape: The love of God for man.
Alacrity: A cheerful readiness or promptness.
Alienation: Estrangement from others.
Altruism: Acting because of unselfish concern for the welfare of others.
Amoral: Incapable of distinguishing between right and wrong.
Anomie: A breakdown or absence of values or social norms.
Antagonistic: Acting in opposition.
Apathy: Absence or suppression of passion, emotion, or excitement.
Aridity: Feeling painfully distant from God.
Arrogance: Feeling superior to others.
Avarice: Greed for wealth with a view to hoarding it. Excessive or inordinate desire of gain; greediness; covetousness.
Battery: Beating, wounding or even touching in an offensive manner another person.
Bestial: Inhuman cruelty.
Boastful: To speak with exaggeration and pride about oneself.
Brutal: Irrational cruelty.
Character: The ability to live up to one's goals and ideals.
Character assassination: To impugn another person's character.
Charity: Giving without expectation of reward.
Chastity: Not engaging in improper sexual intercourse.
Cleanliness: Personally neat; careful to keep or make clean.
Consecration: To dedicate to the service and worship of God.
Contentedness: Being satisfied with things as they are.
Compassion: A feeling of sorrow or pity for the sufferings or misfortunes of others.
Conviction: The state of being convinced.
Courage: To act fearlessly.
Courage of conviction: To act fearlessly in accordance with one's beliefs.
Covetousness: Excessive desire for what belongs to another. Greed. Cruel: Taking pleasure in the pain or distress of others. Willingness to cause pain and indifference to suffering.
Despair: To have no hope.
Despondency: Arises from the false sense that we are inferior to others.
Devotion: Intense love and steadfast enduring loyalty to a person or consecration to a cause.
Disparage: To belittle by words or actions.
Ego: Conscious separation from God and one's fellows.
Egocentric: Regarding oneself as the center of all things.
Egoist: Self-centered or selfish person.
Egoism: The habit of valuing everything only in reference to one's personal interest; pure selfishness.
Egotism: The habit of talking too much about oneself. Conceit, selfishness.
Egotist: A conceited, boastful person.
Empathy: Appreciative perception or understanding.
Emulation: Pain caused by seeing the presence in others of attributes we desire.
Envy: Envy is the pain we feel when we perceive another individual possessing some object.
Eros: Sexual love.
Ethics: The study of right conduct and the good life.
Exasperation: Irritation to the point where self control is threatened or lost.
Fear: Faith that something bad is going to happen.
Ferocious: Fierce bloodthirsty cruelty.
Fierce: Wild or vehement in temper. Violent.
Forgiveness: Willingness to cease to feel resentment against.
Fortitude: Patient courage under affliction.
Frugality: Prudently saving or sparing.
Fury: An excess of rage verging on madness.
Gossiping: Idle talk esp. about the affairs of others.
Greed: Extreme desire for something, often more than one's share.
Hate: To regard with strong or passionate dislike.
Hateful: Guided by hate.
Hatred: The feeling of hate.
Hostile: Opposed to or antagonistic towards another.
Humiliate: To make others feel or appear inadequate or unworthy.
Humility: Modest sense of one's own significance.
Humility: St. Thomas Aquinas teaches that humility is a virtue only insofar as it reflects the consciousness of our shortcomings. Idolatry: Excessive love or veneration of anything.
Industry: Assiduous activity at any work or task.
Indolence: Avoidance of exertion.
Immoral: Actions which transgress moral principles.
Impatience: Lack of patience, intolerance of anything that thwarts or hinders.
Impertinent: Inappropriate intrusion into what does not concern one. Rudeness towards one whom entitled to respect.
Impetuous: Rashly acting before thinking.
Impiety: Lack of reverence for God.
Implacable: Not to be appeased or pacified.
Impudent: Shameless impertinence.
Impulsive: Lack of reflection before acting.
Inconsiderate: Without due regard for the rights and feelings of others.
Inconsistent: Not consistent in principles, conduct, etc.
Indifferent: Without interest or concern.
Indignation: Anger at unmerited good fortune or that which is unworthy.
Inexorable: Unmoved by entreaty.
Inflexible: Unyielding in temper.
Insanity: Trying the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
Insolent: Boldly rude or disrespectful; contemptuously impertinent.
Insolence: Rude or disrespectfully.
Insult: An act which injures another's honor or self respect.
Ire: Feeling of anger.
Irresponsible: Not responsible, not answerable, not capable of responsibility. An act done without a sense of responsibility.
Irritation: Excitation to impatience or angry feeling.
Jealousy: Jealousy arises when a person possesses something of great value and significance to himself and fears that someone will deprive him of it.
Justice: Conformity of one's conduct to the principle of moral rightness.
Laziness: Disinclined to action or exertion.
Love: To take great pleasure in.
Mad: Abnormally furious.
Manipulative: To influence with cunning to suit one's purpose or advantage.
Merciful: Compassionate.
Merciless: Pitiless.
Mildness: Amiably gentle or temperate in feeling or behavior toward others.
Miserly: One who lives miserably to increase his hoard.
Moderation: Avoidance of extremes.
Moral: The term moral has a dual meaning: the first has to do with the ability of a person to understand morality as well as his capacity to make moral decisions; the second has to do with the actual performance of moral acts.
Obedience: Submissive compliance.
Obnoxious: Objectionable; offensive; odious.
Obstinate: Unwilling to accept direction.
Opinionated: Obstinate or conceited with regard to one's opinions.
Order: Let all things have their places; let each part or your business have its time. Ben Franklin.
Patience: Calm and uncomplaining endurance.
Peevish: Cross.
People-pleasing: Attempt to gain favor with another at the expense of one's own best interest, principles, beliefs, etc.
Phoniness: Falsely displaying an emotion, or attitude.
Perseverance: Steady persistence in a course of action despite difficulties.
Persistent: unremitting (and sometimes annoying) perseverance.
Pettiness: Mean or ungenerous in small or trifling things.
Philos: Brotherly love.
Pity: Kindly sorrow exited by the suffering or misfortune of another.
Prattle: Mere prattle without practice - Shakespeare.
Pride: Exaggerating our worth and power.
Pride: Joy which arises from the false opinion that we are superior to others.
Procrastination: Avoiding responsibilities or effort by delaying them.
Prodigal: Give to reckless extravagance.
Provoke: To stir to a sudden strong feeling of resentful anger.
Rage: Angry outburst.
Rapacious: A violet tendency to appropriate to oneself.
Recruitment: Trying to win others to one's own side of an argument, usually involving character assignation.
Remorse: To be re-bitter. A deep and painful regret for wrongdoing. Resentment: To refeel the pain of some injury or insult.
Resolution: Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve. Ben Franklin.
Responsible: Reliable.
Revenge: Retaliation for injuries or wrongs. The carrying out of a bitter desire to injure another for a wrong done to oneself or to those who seem a part of oneself.
Righteousness: Doing or according with that which is right.
Ruthless: Without pity or compassion, merciless.
Savage: Enraged or furiously angry.
Selfishness: Caring unduly or supremely for oneself; regarding one's own comfort
Self-aggrandizement: Increase of one's own power, wealth, etc., usually aggressively.
Self-assertion: Insistence or expression of one's own importance, claims, wishes, opinions, etc.
Self-assurance: self-confidence.
Self-centered: Belief that everything revolves around ones self. Engrossed in self, selfish.
Self-conscious: Excessively conscious of oneself as a object of observation to others.
Self-control: Control of oneself or one's actions, feelings, etc.
Self-deception: Act or fact of deceiving oneself.
Self-discipline: Discipline and training of oneself, usually for improvement.
Self-effacement: Act or fact of keeping oneself in the background, as in modesty or humility.
Self-examination: Examination into one's own state, conduct, motives, etc.
Self-important: Having or showing an exaggerated opinion of one's own importance.
Self-justification: Using plausible excuses to explain actions precipitated by less than honorable motives, esp. to oneself.
Self-pity: A self-indulgent attitude concerning one's own difficulties or hardships.
Self-reliance: Reliance on oneself or one's own powers.
Self-reproach: Blame or censure by one's own conscience.
Self-respect: Proper esteem or regard for the dignity of one's character.
Self-righteousness: Righteous in one's own esteem.
Self-sacrifice: Sacrifice of one's interests, desires, etc., as for duty or the good of another.
Self-seeking: The seeking of one's own interest or selfish ends.
Silence: Avoidance of trifling conversation. Ben Franklin.
Sin: That which separates one from God.
Sincerity: Freedom from deceit, hypocrisy, or duplicity.
Sloth: Not pursuing spiritual goals.
Stingy: One who gives or expends grudgingly.
Stoicism: Unmoved by joy or grief.
Stubborn: Resistance to change.
Suspicious: Inclined to suspect.
Temperance: Moderation or self-restraint in action, statement, etc.
Touchy: Over-sensitive.
Tranquility: Unaffected by disturbing emotions.
Treacherous: Violating faith or betraying trust.
Triste: Sadness and sorrow.
Tristitian: Sadness and depression liked to resistance to divinely imposed obligations.
Truculent: Intimidating or bullying manner or conduct.
Vainglory: Seeking glory or praise to enhance one's reputation rather than to glorify God. Seeking Praise from a worthless source such as from someone of unsound judgment
Vainglory: The desire for glory and praise.
Vengeance: Wrathful.
Vengeful: Desiring or seeking vengeance.
Vindictiveness: Disposed to revenge.
Virtue: Conformity of one's life and conduct to moral and ethical principles.
Wrath: Feeling of anger.
REFERENCES:
1. Seven Deadly Sis, Schimmel
2. Websters 5th Collegiate Dictionary
3. Life application Bible
4. Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary
5. Ideas of the Great Philosophers, Sahakia & Sahakia