This group of women saw the spirit of the law rather than the letter of the law, and when they exposed how the law was being used against its purpose, change was made.
Hillary is parroting the Sunday School lesson from her childhood. It is not a constructive or progressive message. Endurance may be aided by character, but it doesn’t lead to it.
Bart Ehrman’s lecture last Thursday, “Misquoting Jesus: Scribes Who Changed the Scriptures and Readers Who May Never Know,” provided fascinating details on exactly how and why there are mistakes in the Bible (as does his book “Misquoting Jesus” which I recently reviewed on my blog).