The Heart of Perfection : : how the Saints Taught me to Trade my Dream of Perfect for God's
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An ancient lie -- The struggle for gentleness -- Stalking joy -- Braving the waves -- The war within -- A passionate balance -- Pilgrims and strangers -- From head to heart.
Spiritual perfectionism-- an obsession with flawlessness rooted in the belief that we can earn God's love-- is the most dangerous form of perfectionism. It was only after she became a mother that Campbell started to see how insidiously perfectionism had infected her spiritual life, how lethal it could be to her happiness and her family, and how disproportionately it afflicts the people working hardest to serve God. Here she weaves stories of her own struggles against comparison and impossible expectations with those of seven ex-perfectionist saints (and one heretic) who show us how to pursue a new kind of perfection: freedom in Christ. She shows the solution to perfectionism is not to squelch our hard-wired desires for excellence, but to allow God to purify and redirect them. -- adapted from jacket
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PUBLISHED
New York : Howard Books, 2019.
Year Published: 2019
Description: 245 pages ; 22 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781982106164
1982106166
SUBJECTS
Christian women -- Religious life.
Perfection -- Christianity.
Christian saints.