Thoroughness in Evangelistic Details—If our active temperament gathers in a large amount of work that we have not strength nor the grace of Christ to do understandingly and with order and exactitude, everything we undertake shows imperfection, and the work is constantly marred. God is not glorified however good the motive. There is a want of wisdom which is too plainly revealed. The worker complains of constantly having too heavy burdens to bear, when God is not pleased with his taking these burdens; and he makes his own life one of worriment and anxiety and weariness, because he will not learn the lessons Christ has given him: to wear His yoke and bear His burdens rather than the yoke and burdens of his own creating.... {Ev 80.3}

Grundig i det enkelte i evangliet. - Hvis vi har et temperament der udløser en masse arbejde, så vi ikke har styrke eller Kristi nåde til at (81) gøre det med forståelse, orden og præcision, vil alt det vi påtager os vise ufuldkommenhed og arbejdet ødelægges hele tiden. Gud forherliges ikke uanset hvor godt motivet er. Det er for tydeligt at der er en mangel på visdom. Arbejderen, der hele tiden beklager sig over at have for tunge byrder at bære, er Gud ikke er glad for at han har disse byrder. Han gør sit eget liv til en plage, bekymrende og tungt, fordi han ikke vil lære af de lektier som Kristus har givet ham: Hellere at bære Hans åg og byrder, end det åg og de byrder han selv har skabt. ....