Fourteen Mistakes

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Feb 13, 1912

It is a great mistake to set up our own standard of right and wrong, and judge people accordingly.

To measure the enjoyment of others by our own.

To expect uniformity of opinion in this world.

To look for judgment and experience in youth.

To endeavor to mold all dispositions alike.

Not to yield to immaterial trifles.

To look for perfection in our action.

To worry ourselves and others with what can not be remedied.

Not to alleviate all that needs alleviation, as far as lies in our power.

Not to make allowances for the infirmities of others.

To consider everything impossible that we can not perform.

To believe only what our finite minds can grasp.

To expect to be able to understand everything.

The greatest mistake is to live for time alone, when any moment may launch us into eternity.— Anon.