| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: see them turning away since they are so big with pride!
It is the same to them whether thou dost ask forgiveness for them,
or whether thou dost not ask forgiveness for them,- God will not
forgive them; verily, God guides not a people who work abomination!
They it is who say, 'Expend not in alms upon those who are with
the Apostle of God, in order that they may desert him!'-but God's
are the treasures of the heavens and the earth; but the hypocrites
have no sense!
They say, 'If we return to el Medinah, the mightier will surely
drive out the meaner therefrom;' but to God belongs the might, and
to His Apostle and to the believers; but the hypocrites do not know!
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Passionate Pilgrim by William Shakespeare: For his approach, that often there had been.
Anon he comes, and throws his mantle by,
And stood stark naked on the brook's green brim:
The sun look'd on the world with glorious eye,
Yet not so wistly as this queen on him.
He, spying her, bounced in, whereas he stood:
'O Jove,' quoth she, 'why was not I a flood!'
VII.
Fair is my love, but not so fair as fickle;
Mild as a dove, but neither true nor trusty;
Brighter than glass, and yet, as glass is brittle;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Augsburg Confession by Philip Melanchthon: Mediator and Propitiation, 1 Tim. 2, 6, in order that the
Father may be reconciled through Him. Whoever, therefore,
trusts that by works he merits grace, despises the merit and
grace of Christ, and seeks a way to God without Christ, by
human strength, although Christ has said of Himself: I am the
Way, the Truth, and the Life. John 14, 6.
This doctrine concerning faith is everywhere treated by Paul,
Eph. 2, 8: By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not
of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, etc.
And lest any one should craftily say that a new interpretation
of Paul has been devised by us, this entire matter is
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