"visit them with judgments, if need be, that they might be led to see in its true light their departure from Heaven. He longed to see them brought to repentance before they should go to such lengths in evil-doing as to provoke the Lord to destroy them utterly. PK 119.2"
"For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye."
Both passages express God's desire for people to repent and turn away from destruction. The EGW passage speaks of God's judgments as a means to lead people to repentance, while the Ezekiel verse emphasizes God's lack of pleasure in death and calls for repentance.