| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Christ in Flanders by Honore de Balzac: shore, she was suddenly struck by a heavy sea and capsized. The
stranger with the light about his head spoke to this little world of
drowning creatures:
"Those who have faith shall be saved; let them follow me!"
He stood upright, and walked with a firm step upon the waves. The
young mother at once took her child in her arms, and followed at his
side across the sea. The soldier too sprang up, saying in his homely
fashion, "Ah! /nom d'un pipe/! I would follow /you/ to the devil;" and
without seeming astonished by it, he walked on the water. The worn-out
sinner, believing in the omnipotence of God, also followed the
stranger.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: ROM 11:15 For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the
world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
ROM 11:16 For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if
the root be holy, so are the branches.
ROM 11:17 And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a
wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of
the root and fatness of the olive tree;
ROM 11:18 Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou
bearest not the root, but the root thee.
ROM 11:19 Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I
might be graffed in.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol: left both his visitor and himself out of countenance. Chichikov
wondered, as he left the house, what the President's muttered words
could have meant, but failed to make head or tail of them. Next, he
visited, in turn, the Chief of Police, the Vice-Governor, the
Postmaster, and others; but in each case he either failed to be
accorded admittance or was received so strangely, and with such a
measure of constraint and conversational awkwardness and absence of
mind and embarrassment, that he began to fear for the sanity of his
hosts. Again and again did he strive to divine the cause, but could
not do so; so he went wandering aimlessly about the town, without
succeeding in making up his mind whether he or the officials had gone
Dead Souls |
