Let us, however, take heed that our separateness from the world is of the same kind
as our Lord’s. We are not to adopt a peculiar dress, or a singular mode of speech, or
shut ourselves out from society. He did not so; but He was a man of the people,
mixing with them for their good. TN130
If believers could form a secluded settlement where no tempters could intrude, they
would perhaps find the separated life far more easy, though I am not very sure about
it, for all experiments in that direction have broken down. 1242.378
Grace builds neither monasteries nor nunneries. 2001.5
Even in a Christian family we may be seduced into great sin, as well as among the
ungodly. There is no place under heaven where the arrows of temptation cannot
reach us. 2135.160
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