All forms of soul conflict consist in the lack of harmony between the moral, or spiritual, self-consciousness and the purely intellectual self-consciousness. [1] 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. [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. [3] Misadaptation, disharmony, and conflict, all these things are inherent in evolutionary growth, from physical universes to personal creatures. [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. [5]
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. [6] Conflicts occur when men dare to forsake a life of natural craving for one of adventurous art and uncertain logic. [7] New meanings only emerge amid conflict; and conflict persists only in the face of refusal to espouse the higher values connoted in superior meanings. [8] For Jesus prayer a prevention of conflict. [9] Unresolved conflicts destroy unity and may terminate in mind disruption. [10]