Benedict learned from experience that pushing yourself too hard can be a road to spiritual ruin. There is a fine line between work that glorifies God and work that merely glorifies yourself.
Colleen Carroll Campbell
Colleen Carroll Campbell is an award-winning author, print and broadcast journalist and former presidential speechwriter. This essay is adapted from her latest book, The Heart of Perfection: How the Saints Taught Me to Trade My Dream of Perfect for God’s (Simon & Schuster, 2019).
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