John of the Cross Quotes About Perfection

Quotes about: Perfection

• If you do not learn to deny yourself, you can make no progress in perfection.

  John of the Cross

  Perfection, Progress, Deny

• However high be your endeavors, unless you renounce and subjugate your own will - unless you forget yourself and all that pertains to yourself - not one step will you advance on the road to perfection.

  John of the Cross

  Perfection, Steps, Forget You

• For true devotion must issue from the heart, and consist in the truth and substances alone of what is represented by spiritual things; all the rest is affection and attachment proceeding from imperfection; and in order that one may pass to any kind of perfection it is necessary for such desires to be killed.

  John of the Cross

  Spiritual, Heart, Attachment

  St John of the Cross (2011). “Dark Night of the Soul: (Authentic Original Classic)”, p.25, Destiny Image Publishers

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