| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: thou shalt not find for them a help.
Save those who turn again, and do right, and take tight hold on God,
and are sincere in religion to God; these are with the believers,
and God will give to the believers mighty hire.
Why should God punish you, if ye are grateful and believe? for God
is grateful and knowing.
God loves not publicity of evil speech, unless one has been wronged;
for God both hears and knows.
If ye display good or hide it, or pardon evil, verily, God is
pardoning and powerful!
Verily, those who disbelieve in God and His apostles desire to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Baby Mine by Margaret Mayo: retreated. "I wouldn't believe him now if he were one of the
Twelve Apostles."
"That's tough," murmured Jimmy as he saw the last avenue of
honourable escape closed to him.
"Tough!" roared Alfred, thinking of himself. "Hah."
"On the Apostles, I mean," explained Jimmy nervously.
Again Alfred paced up and down the room, and again Jimmy tried to
think of some way to escape from his present difficulty. It was
quite apparent that his only hope lay not in his own candor, but
in Alfred's absence. "How long do you expect to be away?" he
asked.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Crisis in Russia by Arthur Ransome: do things the reward for which would not be obvious the
moment they were done. He says, "I compared our State
economy to a colossal building with scores of stories and
tens of thousands of rooms. The whole building has been
half smashed; in places the roof has tumbled down, the
beams have rotted, the ceilings are tumbling, the drains and
water pipes are burst; the stoves are falling to pieces, the
partitions are shattered, and, finally, the walls and
foundations are unsafe and the whole building is threatened
with collapse. I asked, how, must one set about the repair of
this building? With what kind of economic plan? To this
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