Put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.
–Ephesians 6:13 (NIV)–

The heart of man is deceitful and envious, a constant adversary of holiness; it is not enough to flee from outward temptation, for within lurks the flesh, plotting sin and rebellion against God. The soul must be armed with a supreme love of Christ, with faith and meditation, and with hatred of sin, that it may subdue the flesh, crush its corrupt desires, and maintain the throne of God within, lest the internal foe triumph.
–Jonathan Edwards, The Religious Affections—

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Dismantling the clockwork that makes me the cynic
Pallet, wheel, and click
The properties of my indifference
Reverse-engineering what makes it tick
Dissecting the fine-tuned mechanism
Rack and barrel, spring and pin
Its synchronous characteristics
To kill what makes it spin

Disassemble this machinery
Reprogram these eyes, undo this design

Labelled and filed, each part indexed
Broken to pieces, then thoroughly burned
Deconstruction of what I am
Buried to make sure he never returns
Taken apart, defused
Blueprints turned to ashes
Eradicate the last remains
Remnants of the insane

Disintegration
The destruction of me
Now imperative
To purge myself
Of this condition
Complete this dissolution
A necessity

Break
Break
Break
This deceitful machine

A lie, what once I was
Obsolete instrument
An outmoded contraption
A malfunctioning device
That callous self now extinguished
That malignant self now disused
That conceited invention
To nothing now reduced

–Meshuggah, “Clockworks”–