“To be left alone with God is the only true way of arriving at a just knowledge of ourselves and our ways. We can never get a true estimate of nature and all its actings, until we have weighed them in the balance of the Sanctuary, and then we ascertain their real worth. No matter what we may think about ourselves, nor yet what man may think about us; the great question is, What does God think about us? And the answer to this question can only be heard when we are ‘left alone.’ Away from the world; away from self; away from all the thoughts, reasonings, imaginations, and emotions of mere nature, and ‘alone’ with God—then, and then alone, can we get a correct judgment about ourselves.”