| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Concerning Christian Liberty by Martin Luther: But in doing this he comes into collision with that contrary will
in his own flesh, which is striving to serve the world and to
seek its own gratification. This the spirit of faith cannot and
will not bear, but applies itself with cheerfulness and zeal to
keep it down and restrain it, as Paul says, "I delight in the law
of God after the inward man; but I see another law in my members,
warring against the law of my mind and bringing me into captivity
to the law of sin" (Rom. vii. 22, 23), and again, "I keep under
my body, and bring it unto subjection, lest that by any means,
when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway" (1
Cor. ix. 27), and "They that are Christ's have crucified the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Shadow Line by Joseph Conrad: "Yes, sir," sounded his quiet voice.
"Man! What were you thinking of? You
mustn't do that sort of thing."
After a pause he assented: "I suppose I
mustn't." Then after another short silence he
added: "I am all right now," quickly, between the
tell-tale gasps.
I could neither hear nor see anybody else; but
when I spoke up, answering sad murmurs filled the
quarter-deck, and its shadows seemed to shift here
and there. I ordered all the halyards laid down on
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Blix by Frank Norris: and the whiskey schooner?"
Condy had received the rejected manuscript of "In Defiance of
Authority" that morning, accompanied by a letter from the
Centennial Company.
"Well," he said in answer, "they're not, as you might say, falling
over themselves trying to see who'll be the first to print it.
It's been returned."
"The devil you say!" responded the Captain. "Well, that's kind of
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