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“We can never attain to perfection while we have an affection for any imperfection.”

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Book:The Spiritual Maxims of Saint Francis de Sales

Source: The Spiritual Maxims of Saint Francis de Sales

“All true and living devotion presupposes the love of God and indeed it is neither more nor less than a very real love of God, though not always of the same kind; for that Love one while shining on the soul we call grace, which makes us acceptable to His Divine Majesty; when it strengthens us to do well, it is called Charity; but when it attains its fullest perfection, in which it not only leads us to do well, but to act carefully, diligently, and promptly, then it is called Devotion.”

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Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.”

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Author:Saint Augustine

“To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.”

Source: An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine

“These enemies of divine revelation extol human progress to the skies, and with rash and sacrilegious daring would have it introduced into the Catholic religion as if this religion were not the work of God but of man, or some kind of philosophical discovery susceptible of perfection by human efforts.”

“The Holy Bible is like a mirror before our mind's eye. In it we see our inner face. From the Scriptures we can learn our spiritual deformities and beauties. And there too we discover the progress we are making and how far we are from perfection.”

“There are in truth three states of the converted: the beginning, the middle, and the perfection. In the beginning they experience the charms of sweetness; in the middle the contests of temptation; and in the end the fullness of perfection.”

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Author:Pope Gregory I

“Whenever you begin any good work you should first of all make a most pressing appeal to Christ our Lord to bring it to perfection.”

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Author:Benedict of Nursia