| 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: the devil were after them.
The Law is meant to produce the same effect today which it produced at
Mount Sinai long ago. I want to encourage all who fear God, especially
those who intend to become ministers of the Gospel, to learn from the
Apostle the proper use of the Law. I fear that after our time the right
handling of the Law will become a lost art. Even now, although we
continually explain the separate functions of the Law and the Gospel, we
have those among us who do not understand how the Law should be
used. What will it be like when we are dead and gone?
We want it understood that we do not reject the Law as our opponents
claim. On the contrary, we uphold the Law. We say the Law is good if it is
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Light of Western Stars by Zane Grey: But now I do like them. Where once I saw only terrible wastes of
barren ground now I see beauty and something noble. Then, at
first, your cowboys struck me as dirty, rough, loud, crude,
savage--all that was primitive. I did not want them near me. I
imagined them callous, hard men, their only joy a carouse with
their kind. But I was wrong. I have changed. The dirt was only
dust, and this desert dust is clean. They are still rough, loud,
crude, and savage in my eyes, but with a difference. They are
natural men. They are little children. Monty Price is one of
nature's noblemen. The hard thing is to discover it. All his
hideous person, all his actions and speech, are masks of his real
The Light of Western Stars |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Essays & Lectures by Oscar Wilde: criticism can be said to be of more real value than that involved
in this distinction, and the overlooking of it has filled our
histories with the contemptible accounts of the intrigues of
courtiers and of kings and the petty plottings of backstairs
influence - particulars interesting, no doubt, to those who would
ascribe the Reformation to Anne Boleyn's pretty face, the Persian
war to the influence of a doctor or a curtain-lecture from Atossa,
or the French Revolution to Madame de Maintenon, but without any
value for those who aim at any scientific treatment of history.
But the question of method, to which I am compelled always to
return, is not yet exhausted. There is another aspect in which it
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