Conflict
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All forms of soul conflict consist in the lack of harmony between the moral, or spiritual, self-consciousness and the purely intellectual self-consciousness. 133:6.6
The flight from duty is the sacrifice of truth. The escape from the service of light and life can only result in those distressing conflicts 130:1.2
All believers will have to pass through a fringe of conflict as they pass from the life lived in the flesh to the higher life lived in the spirit. 159:3.7
Misadaptation, disharmony, and conflict, all these things are inherent in evolutionary growth, from physical universes to personal creatures. 105:6.4
All conflict is evil in that it inhibits the creative function of the inner life—it is a species of civil war in the personality. 111:4.11
New religious insights arise out of conflicts which initiate the choosing of new and better reaction habits in the place of older and inferior reaction patterns. 100:4.1
conflicts occur when men dare to forsake a life of natural craving for one of adventurous art and uncertain logic 160:1.6
New meanings only emerge amid conflict; and conflict persists only in the face of refusal to espouse the higher values connoted in superior meanings. 100:4.1
For Jesus prayer a prevention of conflict 100:6.4 196:0.10
Unresolved conflicts destroy unity and may terminate in mind disruption. 133:7.12
Bible parallels
Passages that the paragraphs cited above parallel, quote or reinterpret, from Duane Faw’s Paramony cross-references. Hover a reference to read it.
- Jonah embarks 130:1.2 — Jon 1:3.
- Dou you believe that the fish swallowed Jonah? 130:1.2 — Jon 1:17.
- My yoke is easy, burden light 159:3.7 — Mt 11:30.
- Jesus did His Father's will 196:0.10 — Mt 26:39,42,44; Mk 14:36,39; Lk 22:42; Jn 4:34; Jn 5:30; Jn 6:38-40; Jn 15:10; Jn 17:4.