"True Christian love cherished in the heart and exemplified in the life, would teach us to put the best possible construction upon the course of our brethren. We should be as jealous of their reputation as of our own. If we are forever suspecting evil, this very fact will so shape their course of action as to produce the very evil which we have allowed ourselves to suspect. In this way, a great many difficulties are manufactured that otherwise would never have had birth, and brethren are often wronged by our being suspicious, free to judge their motives, and express our opinion to others in regard to their actions. That which one may be ready to construe into grave wrongs, may be no more than we ourselves are chargeable with every day."
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The Review and Herald (15 April 1880); also in Mind, Character, and Personality (1977), Vol. 2, p. 789
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Ellen G. White
1827 – 1915
US-amerikanische Schriftstellerin und Mitbegründerin der Siebenten-Tags-Adventisten
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