| 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: What kind of life would this be if one person could not believe another
person?
MEEKNESS
A person is meek when he is not quick to get angry. Many things occur in
daily life to provoke a person's anger, but the Christian gets over his anger
by meekness.
TEMPERANCE
Christians are to lead sober and chaste lives. They should not be adulterers,
fornicators, or sensualists. They should not be quarrelers or drunkards.
In the first and second chapters of the Epistle to Titus, the Apostle
admonishes bishops, young women, and married folks to be chaste and pure.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy: of Little Hintock, of which the boundaries were now lost by its
absorption with others of its kind into the adjoining estate of
Mrs. Charmond. Though the Melburys themselves were unaware of the
fact, there was every reason to believe--at least so the parson
said that the owners of that little manor had been Melbury's own
ancestors, the family name occurring in numerous documents
relating to transfers of land about the time of the civil wars.
Mr. Fitzpiers's dwelling, on the contrary, was small, cottage-
like, and comparatively modern. It had been occupied, and was in
part occupied still, by a retired farmer and his wife, who, on the
surgeon's arrival in quest of a home, had accommodated him by
The Woodlanders |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The American by Henry James: bill or refused her an opera-box."
Newman looked from Tristram to his wife with a certain mistrust
in each direction. "Do you really mean," he asked of Mrs. Tristram,
"that your friend is being forced into an unhappy marriage?"
"I think it extremely probable. Those people are very capable
of that sort of thing."
"It is like something in a play," said Newman; "that dark old
house over there looks as if wicked things had been done in it,
and might be done again."
"They have a still darker old house in the country Madame de Cintre tells me,
and there, during the summer this scheme must have been hatched."
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