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Extremes: How to Keep Your Virtues from Becoming Vices
Extremes How to Keep Your Virtues from Becoming Vices Author:Robert Eaton In their extremes, our virtues can become vices. What's more, the adversary often couples temptations in pairs of matching extremes: The Complacently Confident and the Dejectedly Self-Critical, Rigid Planners and Wingers, Sprinters and Saunterers, Underachievers and Overachievers, Self-Righteous Saints and Anything-Goes Relativis... more »ts, Forever Frivolous or Joylessly Solemn, Misplaced Self-Reliance and Cheap Grace, Permissive Parents and Overcontrollers, Idolizers and Detractors, The Fearfully Timid and the Brashly Overbearing.
With insight, encouragement, and compelling stories, author Robert Eaton helps us to resist "Satan's swinging pendulum" with wisdom and judgment. Pressing forward is clearly a virtue -- but we should move ahead at a marathoner's pace rather than a sprinter's!« less