Our compassionate High Priest was acquainted with your weakness and your errors and did not leave you in your inexperience to battle with the great foe amid unfavorable surroundings. Had you remained in ----- you would not have retained the truth. The opposition you would have received would have raised your combativeness, and you would have dishonored the truth by a hasty spirit; and then, as obstacles arose in your Christian journey, you would have become discouraged and yielded the truth. You have much to be thankful for. Your heart should be filled with gratitude to your loving Saviour for His mercy to you, to you who have so long abused His love. {2T 421.3}

Du må åbne dit hjerte op for kærlighed, for den kærlighed som dvæler i Jesu skød. Skulle din Frelser behandle dig som du behandler dem du er anderledes fra, ville du med sikkerhed bringes i stor pine. Så ville det næsten var håbløst for dig. Men jeg takker Herren for at vi har en barmhjertig ypperstepræst som kan røre ved vor svaghedsfornemmelser. Du har haft problemer med andre og opført dig på en måde som himlen ikke kan anerkende. Du har et arbejde at udrette med at lade Guds nådes blødgørende indflydelse gå ind i dit hjerte; opsøge sagtmodighed, opsøge retfærdighed.