| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians by Martin Luther: are many who refuse to be instructed. They will not listen to reason; they
will not listen to the Scriptures, because they are bewitched by the tricky
devil who can make a lie look like the truth.
Since the devil has this uncanny ability to make us believe a lie until we
would swear a thousand times it were the truth, we must not be proud, but
walk in fear and humility, and call upon the Lord Jesus to save us from
temptation.
Although I am a doctor of divinity, and have preached Christ and fought His
battles for a long time, I know from personal experience how difficult it is
to hold fast to the truth. I cannot always shake off Satan. I cannot always
apprehend Christ as the Scriptures portray Him. Sometimes the devil distorts
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne: continued he, rising in his argument, 'tis getting worse than
nothing, when all you have got after twenty or five and twenty
years of the tenderest care and most nutritious aliment bestowed
upon it, shall not at last be as high as my leg. Now, Mr. Shandy
being very short, there could be nothing more said of it.
As this is not a work of reasoning, I leave the solution as I found
it, and content myself with the truth only of the remark, which is
verified in every lane and by-lane of Paris. I was walking down
that which leads from the Carousal to the Palais Royal, and
observing a little boy in some distress at the side of the gutter
which ran down the middle of it, I took hold of his hand and help'd
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Emma by Jane Austen: more natural than one could wish, that a young man, brought up
by those who are proud, luxurious, and selfish, should be proud,
luxurious, and selfish too. If Frank Churchill had wanted to see
his father, he would have contrived it between September and January.
A man at his age--what is he?--three or four-and-twenty--cannot be
without the means of doing as much as that. It is impossible."
"That's easily said, and easily felt by you, who have always
been your own master. You are the worst judge in the world,
Mr. Knightley, of the difficulties of dependence. You do not know
what it is to have tempers to manage."
"It is not to be conceived that a man of three or four-and-twenty
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