Reason Dethroned by Anger—I hope you will go over the ground carefully and consider your first temptation to depart from the rules of the college. Study critically the character of the government of our school. The rules which were enforced were none too strict. But anger was cherished; for the time being reason was dethroned and the heart was made a prey to ungovernable passion. Before you were aware, you had taken a step which a few hours previous you would not have taken under any pressure of temptation. Impulse had overcome reason, and you could not recall the injury done to yourself nor to an institution of God. Our only safety under all circumstances is in being always master of ourselves in the strength of Jesus our Redeemer.—Testimonies for the Church 4:431 (1880). {2MCP 521.2}

Repressalier fører kun ondt med sig — Det ville være langt bedre for os, at lide under en falsk anklage end at påføre os selv den tortur at øve gengæld mod vore fjender. Hadets og hævnens ånd havde sin oprindelse hos Satan, og kan kun bringe ondt over enhver, som nærer den. Hjertets ydmyghed, den sagtmodighed, som er følgen af, at man bliver i Kristus, er velsignelsens hemmelige grundlag. »Han smykker de ydmyge med frelse.« (Sl. 149,4). — Med Mesteren på bjerget, 25 (1896).