| 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: Gospel, and not the Law." However, when the conflict of conscience is over
and external duties must be performed, close your ears to the Gospel, and
open them wide to the Law.
VERSE 14. I said unto Peter before them all, If thou being a Jew, livest
after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest
thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews
To live as a Jew is nothing bad. To eat or not to eat pork, what difference
does it make? But to play the Jew, and for conscience' sake to abstain from
certain meats, is a denial of Christ. When Paul saw that Peter's attitude
tended to this, he withstood Peter and said to him: "You know that the
observance of the Iaw is not needed unto righteousness. You know that we are
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Recruit by Honore de Balzac: the slightest movement for two days. This tale had prodigious success,
and the doctor of Carentan, a royalist "in petto," increased its
effect by the manner in which he discussed the remedy.
Nevertheless, suspicions had taken too strong a root in the minds of
some obstinate persons, and a few philosophers, to be thus dispelled;
so that all Madame de Dey's usual visitors came eagerly and early that
evening to watch her countenance: some out of true friendship, but
most of them to detect the secret of her seclusion.
They found the countess seated as usual, at the corner of the great
fireplace in her salon, a room almost as unpretentious as the other
salons in Carentan; for, in order not to wound the narrow view of her
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: was not fear that held him back. He hated this hiding, this
eternal vigilance, this hopeless life. The damnable paradox of
the situation was that if he went out to meet these men there
was absolutely no doubt of his doom. If he clung to his covert
there was a chance, a merest chance, for his life. These
pursuers, dogged and unflagging as they had been, were mortally
afraid of him. It was his fame that made them cowards. Duane's
keenness told him that at the very darkest and most perilous
moment there was still a chance for him. And the blood in him,
the temper of his father, the years of his outlawry, the pride
of his unsought and hated career, the nameless, inexplicable
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