The law of reversed effort, in fact, is valid on every level of life; and warns us against the error of making religion too grim and strenuous an affair.

Certainly in all life of the Spirit the will is active, and must retain its conscious and steadfast orientation to God.

Heroic activity and moral effort must form an integral part of full human experience.

Yet it is clearly possible to make too much of the process of wrestling evil.

An attention chiefly and anxiously concentrated on the struggle with sins and weaknesses, instead of on the eternal sources of happiness and power, will offer the unconscious harmful suggestions of impotence and hence tend to frustration.