| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: beheld them daily advance in confidence and desperation; I
beheld myself, upon the other hand, and with an almost equal
regularity, decline in faith. I had sacrificed all to
further that cause in which I still believed; and daily I
began to grow in doubts if we were advancing it indeed.
Horrible was the society with which we warred, but our own
means were not less horrible.
'I will not dwell upon my sufferings; I will not pause to
tell you how, when I beheld young men still free and happy,
married, fathers of children, cheerfully toiling at their
work, my heart reproached me with the greatness and vanity of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Richard III by William Shakespeare: Can from his mother win the Duke of York,
Anon expect him here; but if she be obdurate
To mild entreaties, God in heaven forbid
We should infringe the holy privilege
Of blessed sanctuary! Not for all this land
Would I be guilty of so deep a sin.
BUCKINGHAM. You are too senseless-obstinate, my lord,
Too ceremonious and traditional.
Weigh it but with the grossness of this age,
You break not sanctuary in seizing him.
The benefit thereof is always granted
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from God The Invisible King by H. G. Wells: 3. SIN IS NOT DAMNATION
Now the question of sin will hardly concern those damned and lost by
nature, if such there be. Sin is not the same thing as damnation,
as we have just defined damnation. Damnation is a state, but sin is
an incident. One is an essential and the other an incidental
separation from God. It is possible to sin without being damned;
and to be damned is to be in a state when sin scarcely matters, like
ink upon a blackamoor. You cannot have questions of more or less
among absolute things.
It is the amazing and distressful discovery of every believer so
soon as the first exaltation of belief is past, that one does not
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