| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: Gaston rose and went to the piano, and began to play the
wonderful melody of Weber, the music of which stood open before
him.
Marguerite, resting one hand on the piano, followed every note on
the music, accompanying it in a low voice, and when Gaston had
come to the passage which she had mentioned to him, she sang out,
running her fingers along the top of the piano:
"Do, re, mi, do, re, fa, mi, re; that is what I can not do. Over
again."
Gaston began over again, after which Marguerite said:
"Now, let me try."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians by Martin Luther: This may hold true in ordinary civic life. But the papists apply it to the
spiritual realm where a person can perform nothing but sin, because he is
sold under sin.
Our opponents go even further than that. They say, nature is depraved,
but the qualities of nature are untainted. Again we say: This may hold true
in everyday life, but not in the spiritual life. In spiritual matters a person
is by nature full of darkness, error, ignorance, malice, and perverseness in
will and in mind.
In view of this, Paul declares that Christ began and not we. "He loved me,
and gave Himself for me. He found in me no right mind and no good
will. But the good Lord had mercy upon me. Out of pure kindness He
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A treatise on Good Works by Dr. Martin Luther: make him subject, so that he rule not himself, approve not
himself, think not highly of himself; but in humility know
himself and allow himself to be led, that pride be prevented. The
following Commandments deal with the passions and lust of men,
that these also be killed.
I. The passions of anger and revenge, of which the Fifth
Commandment says, "Thou shalt not kill." This Commandment has one
work, which however includes many and dispels many vices, and is
called meekness. Now this is of two kinds. The one has a
beautiful splendor, and there is nothing back of it. This we
practice toward our friends and those who do us good and give us
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