Bible Dictionary: Perfection: Saints Follow After

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Proverbs 4:18
But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shines more and more to the perfect day.
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Philippians 3:12
Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
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Library

All Saints' Day
... winds and bad times, then the Saints mourn over ... He says nothing of perfection, and
censures only those ... them; so that they may follow after blessedness whether ...
//christianbookshelf.org/tauler/the inner way/sermon xxv all saints day.htm

Whether the Saints have Knowledge of Our Prayers?
... Wherefore, since the souls of the saints do not comprehend the Divine essence, it
does not follow that they ... as many other things as the perfection of his ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether the saints have knowledge.htm

Christian Perfection
... our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.""1:Thess ... A perfection not attainable in
this life ... attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that ...
/.../byers/sanctification/chapter viii christian perfection.htm

Whether after the Resurrection the Saints Will See God with the ...
... flesh (which is promised to the saints after the resurrection ... corporeal object: but
it does not follow that the ... Objection 6: Beatitude is the perfection of man ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether after the resurrection the.htm

Sanctification.
... He does indeed speak of perfection. ... already attained, either were already perfect;
but I follow after, if that ... The saints on earth, then, are not sinless ones. ...
/.../the way of salvation in the lutheran church/chapter xxii sanctification.htm

Letter xii. --After the Retreat.
... God made you pass the feast of All Saints was very ... If He allowed us to follow our
own desires and ideas ... works in a divine way at our perfection through these ...
/.../de caussade/abandonment to divine providence/letter xii after the retreat.htm

Perfect in Parts, Imperfect in Degrees.
... followed Scripture; which places the perfection of God's ... some teachers, for the
perfecting of saints, for the ... had already attained, but I follow after if that ...
/.../kuyper/the work of the holy spirit/x perfect in parts imperfect.htm

Whether the Judicial Power Corresponds to Voluntary Poverty?
... For the reason why one of the saints will be said to judge as stated ... Wherefore among
those things regarding perfection which follow after poverty we may ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether the judicial power corresponds.htm

Concerning Perfection.
... much crying up their usefulness and perfection: now the ... renders the prayers of the
saints altogether useless ... might suppose this absurdity to follow, that their ...
/.../proposition viii concerning perfection.htm

Of the Fact that Devils Struggle with Men not Without Effort on ...
... Each one then of the saints when he looks on ... exclaims with delight: "I will follow
after mine enemies ... and one that is quite contrary to evangelical perfection. ...
/.../cassian/the works of john cassian /chapter xxi of the fact.htm