Safety in Remembering One’s Weakness—Men are tested and proved not only before human intelligences but before the heavenly universe. Unless they fear and tremble for themselves, unless they realize their own weakness and remember their past failures, striving to guard against repeating them, they will make the same mistakes, which were attended with results that they cannot afford the second time.—MS 43, 1898. {2MCP 728.2}

Sikkert at huske en svaghed — Mennesker skal ikke kun forsøges og prøves over for menneskelig forstands væsener men også for det himmelske univers. Med mindre de selv frygter og skælver, hvis de ikke erkender deres egen svaghed og husker deres tidligere fejl, og forsøger at vogte sig imod dem, vil de gøre den samme fejltagelse, som var resultatet af deres andet forsøg. — MS 43, 1898.