The thought that we are in God’s world and in the presence of the great Creator of the universe, who made man in His own image, after His own likeness, will lift the mind into broader, higher fields for meditation than any fictitious story. The thought that God’s eye is watching us, that He loves us and cared so much for fallen man as to give His dearly beloved Son to redeem us that we might not miserably perish, is a great one, and whoever opens his heart to the acceptance and contemplation of these great themes will never be satisfied with trivial, sensational subjects.—The Review and Herald, November 9, 1886. {1MCP 94.5}

Tanken at vi er i Guds verden og nærheden af universets store Skaber, som gjorde mennesket i Sit eget billede, efter Sin egen lighed, vil løfte sindet til bredere, højere områder for meditation end opdigtet historie kan. Tanken at Guds øjne våger på os, at Han elsker os og har så stor omsorg for faldne mennesker, som at give Sin dyrebare elskede Søn, for at genløse os så vi ikke går helt fortabt, er en stor enhed, og den som åbner sit hjerte til at acceptere og tænke over disse store temaer, vil aldrig stille sig tilfreds med trivielle og sensationelle emner. - RH, 9. nov., 1886.