Discarding Things

There is in life an essential duty of discarding things.  There may be habits, pleasures, self-indulgences, associations which hold us back.  We must shed them as an athlete sheds his track suit when he goes to the starting mark, and often we will need the help of God to enable us to do so.  (William Barclay, The Letter To The Hebrews, p. 172-73)