If, after one has done the best he can in his judgment, another thinks he can see where he could have improved the matter, he should kindly and patiently give the brother the benefit of his judgment, but should not censure him nor question his integrity of purpose any sooner than he himself would wish to be suspected or unjustly censured. If the brother who feels the cause of God at heart sees that, in his earnest efforts to do, he has made a failure, he will feel deeply over the matter; for he will be inclined to distrust himself and to lose confidence in his own judgment. Nothing will so weaken his courage and godlike manhood as to realize his mistakes in the work that God has appointed him to do, a work which he loves better than his life. How unjust, then, for his brethren who discover his errors to keep pressing the thorn deeper and deeper into his heart, to make him feel more intensely, when with every thrust they are weakening his faith and courage, and his confidence in himself to work successfully in the upbuilding of the cause of God. {3T 92.2}

[Hvis en broder har gjort det bedste, han efter sit skøn formår og en anden derefter mener at kunne se, hvor han kunne have forbedret sagen, bør han venligt og tålmodigt lade vedkommende broder nyde fordel af sit skøn, men bør lige så lidt dadle ham eller drage hans redelige hensigt i tvivl, som han selv ville ønske at blive mistænkt eller uretfærdigt dadlet. Dersom den broder, hvem Guds sag ligger på hjerte, indser, at han i sine alvorlige bestræbelser har begået en fejl, vil han føle det tungt; for han vil være tilbøjelig til at fatte mistillid til sig selv og til at miste tiltroen til sit eget skøn. Intet vil i den grad svække hans frimodighed og guddommelige menneskeværd som forståelsen af hans fejlgreb i den gerning, Gud (93) har udpeget ham til at gøre, en gerning, som han elsker højere end sit liv. Hvor uretfærdigt er det derfor ikke, at hans brødre, der opdager hans fejlgreb, vedbliver at trykke tornen dybere og dybere ind i hans hjerte, således at han føler det endnu stærkere, når de ved hvert stød svækker hans tro og frimodighed og hans tillid til at kunne udføre et frugtbringende arbejde for at fremme Guds sag!