| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner: should raise his head, we laugh at him. It is not his hour now.
"If there should be a hell, after all!" he mutters. "If your God should be
cruel! If there should be no God! If you should find out it is all
imagination! If--"
We laugh at him. When a man sits in the warm sunshine, do you ask him for
proof of it? He feels--that is all. And we feel--that is all. We want no
proof of our God. We feel, we feel!
We do not believe in our God because the Bible tells us of Him. We believe
in the Bible because He tells us of it. We feel Him, we feel Him, we feel-
-that is all! And the poor, half-swamped devil mutters:
"But if the day should come when you do not feel?"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Paradise Lost by John Milton: O, had his powerful destiny ordained
Me some inferiour Angel, I had stood
Then happy; no unbounded hope had raised
Ambition! Yet why not some other Power
As great might have aspired, and me, though mean,
Drawn to his part; but other Powers as great
Fell not, but stand unshaken, from within
Or from without, to all temptations armed.
Hadst thou the same free will and power to stand?
Thou hadst: whom hast thou then or what to accuse,
But Heaven's free love dealt equally to all?
Paradise Lost |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Marriage Contract by Honore de Balzac: It is necessary to give here his own letter to de Marsay written on
leaving Paris, to which his friend replied in the letter he received
through old Mathias from the dock:--
From Comte Paul de Manerville to Monsieur le Marquis Henri de
Marsay:
Henri,--I have to say to you one of the most vital words a man can
say to his friend:--I am ruined. When you read this I shall be on
the point of sailing from Bordeaux to Calcutta on the brig "Belle-
Amelie."
You will find in the hands of your notary a deed which only needs
your signature to be legal. In it, I lease my house to you for six
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