| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Concerning Christian Liberty by Martin Luther: liberty of spirit they may thus be the servants of others and
subject to powers, obeying their will out of gratuitous love.
Such, too, ought to have been the works of all colleges,
monasteries, and priests; every one doing the works of his own
profession and state of life, not in order to be justified by
them, but in order to bring his own body into subjection, as an
example to others, who themselves also need to keep under their
bodies, and also in order to accommodate himself to the will of
others, out of free love. But we must always guard most carefully
against any vain confidence or presumption of being justified,
gaining merit, or being saved by these works, this being the part
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Altar of the Dead by Henry James: finally met his eyes - it was after a fourth trial - to
predetermine quite fixedly his awaiting her retreat. He joined her
in the street as soon as she had moved, asking her if he might
accompany her a certain distance. With her placid permission he
went as far as a house in the neighbourhood at which she had
business: she let him know it was not where she lived. She lived,
as she said, in a mere slum, with an old aunt, a person in
connexion with whom she spoke of the engrossment of humdrum duties
and regular occupations. She wasn't, the mourning niece, in her
first youth, and her vanished freshness had left something behind
that, for Stransom, represented the proof it had been tragically
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: theless, and ye cannot be angry with my poor eyes if
they deceive me into believing that no fairer woman
breathes the air of England. Nor can you chide my
sinful brain that it gladly believes what mine eyes tell
it. No, you may not be angry so long as I do not tell
you all this."
Bertrade de Montfort did not know how to answer
so ridiculous a sophistry; and, truth to tell, she was
more than pleased to hear from the lips of Roger de
Conde what bored her on the tongues of other men.
De Conde was the guest of the Earl of Leicester
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