Vices: Vices can be classified according to the virtues they oppose. They can also engender other sins, other vices. According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, the vices are: pride, avarice, envy, wrath, lust, gluttony/greed and sloth. (CCC 1866) The free choices humans make have implications for self, others and creation. Humans can make choices and decisions that are sinful (vices) and end up with a life they ultimately regret. Humans can be pulled in a variety of directions. Vices like virtues are habits that actively, over time form the person. As habits, they are not dormant. Vices like virtues can become ingrained, characteristic ways of acting. Human nature is complex, with conflicting tendencies striving to gain sovereignty over the self. The Church distinguishes between vice, which is a habit of sin, and the sin itself, which is an individual morally wrong act. Humans hold the paradox of being made in God's image to seek and choose true good, at the same time being free to choose and make decisions that are sinful and not truly good. Living with this paradox, believers know God's mercy and forgiveness stand fast; given freely through God's unconditional love and hope for all of humanity.