| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: Psalms 70: 3 Let them be turned back by reason of their shame that say: 'Aha, aha.'
Psalms 70: 4 Let all those that seek Thee rejoice and be glad in Thee; and let such as love Thy salvation say continually: 'Let God be magnified.'
Psalms 70: 5 But I am poor and needy; O God, make haste unto me; Thou art my help and my deliverer; O LORD, tarry not.
Psalms 71: 1 In Thee, O LORD, have I taken refuge; let me never be ashamed.
Psalms 71: 2 Deliver me in Thy righteousness, and rescue me; incline Thine ear unto me, and save me.
Psalms 71: 3 Be Thou to me a sheltering rock, whereunto I may continually resort, which Thou hast appointed to save me; for Thou art my rock and my fortress.
Psalms 71: 4 O my God, rescue me out of the hand of the wicked, out of the grasp of the unrighteous and ruthless man.
Psalms 71: 5 For Thou art my hope; O Lord GOD, my trust from my youth.
Psalms 71: 6 Upon Thee have I stayed myself from birth; Thou art he that took me out of my mother's womb; my praise is continually of Thee.
Psalms 71: 7 I am as a wonder unto many; but Thou art my strong refuge.
Psalms 71: 8 My mouth shall be filled with Thy praise, and with Thy glory all the day.
The Tanach |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Virginibus Puerisque by Robert Louis Stevenson: us a few songs in a bygone taste, a few actions worth
remembering, and a few children who have retained some happy
stamp from the disposition of their parents.
IV. - TRUTH OF INTERCOURSE
AMONG sayings that have a currency in spite of being
wholly false upon the face of them for the sake of a half-
truth upon another subject which is accidentally combined with
the error, one of the grossest and broadest conveys the
monstrous proposition that it is easy to tell the truth and
hard to tell a lie. I wish heartily it were. But the truth
is one; it has first to be discovered, then justly and exactly
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Arizona Nights by Stewart Edward White: Homer rode away, coiling the rope as he went.
"Hot iron!" yelled one of the bull-doggers.
"Marker!" yelled the other.
Immediately two men ran forward. The brander pressed the iron
smoothly against the flank. A smoke and the smell of scorching
hair arose. Perhaps the calf blatted a little as the heat
scorched. In a brief moment it was over. The brand showed
cherry, which is the proper colour to indicate due peeling and a
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