Each one will have a close struggle to overcome sin in his own heart. This is at times a very painful and discouraging work; because, as we see the deformities in our character, we keep looking at them, when we should look to Jesus and put on the robe of His righteousness. Everyone who enters the pearly gates of the city of God will enter there as a conqueror, and his greatest conquest will have been the conquest of self. {9T 182.3}

Enhver må i nærkamp for at overvinde synden i sit eget hjerte. Dette er til tider et meget smertefuldt og nedslående arbejde. Det skyldes, at når vi ser manglerne i vor karakter, bliver vi ved med at betragte dem, hvor vi burde se hen til Jesus og iføre os hans retfærdigheds klædebon. (183) Enhver der vil gå ind gennem perleportene i Guds stad, vil gå derind som sejrherre og hans største sejr, vil være sejren over selvet.