{"product_id":"heroic-habits-discovering-the-souls-potential-for-greatness-paperback","title":"Heroic Habits: Discovering the Soul's Potential for Greatness - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEzra Sullivan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou are made for greatness. Not mediocrity. Not mere goodness. \u003ci\u003eGreatness\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe structure of your life, your human nature, your unique body, your emotions--everything about you is oriented to your perfection. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBut how are we to reach greatness? \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this thought-provoking book, Father Ezra Sullivan provides the forgotten key to discovering the soul's potential for greatness: \u003ci\u003eheroic habits\u003c\/i\u003e. A habit is what makes us into saints or sinners. Just as the body can become stronger through exercise and effort, or weaker through wounds or neglect, so the entire person can develop an almost permanent state of goodness or evil through habituation to virtue or vice. Habits both reveal and shape who you are; they speak about what you have been, and they predict what you will be.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUnique for a spirituality book, \u003ci\u003eHeroic Habits\u003c\/i\u003e explores and combines three realms of thought: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe psychological science of habits\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSt. Thomas Aquinas's theory of habits\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePractical advice on habits\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eUtilizing humor, everyday examples, and serious scholarship, Fr. Ezra gets to the root of one of the things most mysterious to us--ourselves. Because habits are biological, psychological, and spiritual realities, \u003ci\u003eHeroic Habits\u003c\/i\u003e provides a panoramic vision of the whole human person. Front and center are why we are the way we are, how we make habits, how habits influence our lives, and how to develop good ones and eradicate bad ones, all with the help of God, as well as the saints, who lived out their good habits heroically and provide a blueprint for you to do the same. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHeroic Habits\u003c\/i\u003e will help you achieve long-lasting insight about yourself, to open yourself to the transforming grace of Christ, and to develop the good habits you have always desired.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eEzra Sullivan, O.P., a native of California, is a Dominican friar of the Province of St. Joseph in the United States. Having served in a parish after ordination to the priesthood, he is now a professor of moral theology and psychology at the University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome (Angelicum). He is the author of Habits and Holiness: Ethics, Theology, and Biopsychology (Catholic University of America Press, 2021).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 30, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51754102718752,"sku":"9781505130782","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/0eb0fe39ac1961db20647575b9beaf5c.webp?v=1780033501","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/heroic-habits-discovering-the-souls-potential-for-greatness-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}