victory

• which overcomes world is faith

4:4.9The con­scious­ness of a vic­to­ri­ous hu­man life on earth is born of that crea­ture faith which dares to chal­lenge each re­cur­ring episode of ex­is­tence when con­fronted with the aw­ful spec­ta­cle of hu­man lim­i­ta­tions, by the un­fail­ing dec­la­ra­tion: Even if I can­not do this, there lives in me one who can and will do it, a part of the Fa­ther-Ab­so­lute of the uni­verse of uni­verses. And that is “the vic­tory which over­comes the world, even your faith.”

• certain v. crowns efforts of all who run race of faith

32:5.8The goal of eter­nity is ahead! The ad­ven­ture of di­vin­ity at­tain­ment lies be­fore you! The race for per­fec­tion is on! whoso­ever will may en­ter, and cer­tain vic­tory will crown the ef­forts of ev­ery hu­man be­ing who will run the race of faith and trust, de­pend­ing ev­ery step of the way on the lead­ing of the in­dwelling Ad­juster and on the guid­ance of that good spirit of the Uni­verse Son, which so freely has been poured out upon all flesh.

• faith maintains trust in ultimate v. regardless

101:3.106. Main­tains a di­vine trust in ul­ti­mate vic­tory in spite of the cru­el­ties of seem­ingly blind fate and the ap­par­ent ut­ter in­dif­fer­ence of nat­u­ral forces to hu­man wel­fare.

• conquest by sacrifice of pride and selfishness

141:3.8Je­sus por­trayed con­quest by sac­ri­fice, the sac­ri­fice of pride and self­ish­ness. By show­ing mercy, he meant to por­tray spir­i­tual de­liv­er­ance from all grudges, grievances, anger, and the lust for self­ish power and re­venge. And when he said, “Re­sist not evil,” he later ex­plained that he did not mean to con­done sin or to coun­sel fra­ter­nity with in­iq­uity. He in­tended the more to teach for­give­ness, to “re­sist not evil treat­ment of one’s per­son­al­ity, evil in­jury to one’s feel­ings of per­sonal dig­nity.”