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Yet much remains To conquer still; peace hath her victories

1. “Yet much remains To conquer still; peace hath her victories No less renowned then war, new foes arise Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains: Help us to save free conscience from the paw Of hireling wolves whose gospel is their maw.”

Peace, War, Spiritual Struggle, Freedom, Conscience

The Church must be forever building for it is forever

2. “The Church must be forever building, for it is forever decaying within and attacked from without.”

Church, Building, Decaying, Religious Institution, Spiritual Struggle, Constant Renewal

Fading fading: strength beyond hope and despair climbing the third

3. “Fading, fading: strength beyond hope and despair climbing the third stair. Lord, I am not worthy Lord, I am not worthy but speak the word only.”

Fading, Strength, Worthy, Spiritual Struggle, Religious Humility, Existential Journey

O Lord deliver me from the man of excellent intention

4. “O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.”

Intention, Heart, Wickedness, Moral Complexity, Human Nature, Spiritual Struggle

I’m a holy man minus the holiness

5. “I’m a holy man minus the holiness.”

Inadequacy, Irony, Self-Reflection, Humor, Spiritual Struggle, Identity

Lucifer also has died with God and from his ashes

6. “Lucifer also has died with God, and from his ashes has arisen a spiteful demon who does not even understand the object of his venture.”

Lucifer And God, Spiritual Struggle, Existential Reflection, Lucifer, God, Struggle

Battling a sickness of the spirit was like standing in

7. “Battling a sickness of the spirit was like standing in a quickstand and beating it with a stick.”

Spiritual Struggle, Challenge, Mental Health, Persistence, Resistance, Fight

Solitude is the playfield of Satan

8. “Solitude is the playfield of Satan.”

Vladimir Nabokov

Solitude, Inner Demons, Isolation, Temptation, Spiritual Struggle, Existential Despair

The angel is free because of his knowledge the beast

9. “The angel is free because of his knowledge, the beast because of his ignorance. Between the two remains the son of man to struggle.”

Rumi

Freedom, Knowledge, Ignorance, Spiritual Struggle, Growth, Transformation

God is indeed a jealous God He cannot bear to

10. “God is indeed a jealous God. He cannot bear to see, that we had rather not with him, but with each other play.”

Emily Dickinson

Jealous God, Divine Jealousy, Faith, God’s Will, Spiritual Struggle, Relationships