Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

This disrespect for others, this disregard for
right and justice, is not a rare thing. It is found to a
greater or less extent in all our institutions. If one
makes a mistake, there are some who make it their
business to talk about it until it grows to large
proportions. Instead of this, there should be in all
engaged in our institutions a sacred principle to
guard the interest and reputation of everyone with
whom they are associated, even as they would wish
their own reputation guarded.
Results of Fostered Sin
The strongest bulwark of vice in our world is
not iniquitous life of the abandoned sinner or the
degraded outcast; it is that life which otherwise
appears virtuous, honorable, and noble, but in
which one sin is fostered, one vice indulged. To the
soul that is struggling in secret against some giant
temptation, trembling upon the very verge of the
precipice, such an example is one of the most
powerful enticements to sin. He who, endowed
with high conceptions of life and truth and honor,
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