If the husband and wife would only continue to cultivate these attentions which nourish love, they would be happy in each other’s society and would have a sanctifying influence upon their families. They would have in themselves a little world of happiness and would not desire to go outside this world for new attractions and new objects of love. Many a wife has sickened and died prematurely for the want of encouraging words of sympathy and love manifested in kindly attentions and in words.— Letter 27, 1872. {1MCP 158.1}

Hvis manden og hustruen blot ville fortsætte med at opelske denne opmærksomhed som giver kærlighed næring, ville de være lykkelige for hinandens selskab og have en helliggørende indflydelse på deres familier. I dem selv ville de have en lille verden af lykke og ville ikke ønske at gå uden for denne verden efter nye tillokkelser og nye ting at elske. Manges hustruer er blevet syge og døde af udmattelse af manglen på opmuntrende forstående ord og kærlighed, der vises i venlig opmærksomhed og i ord. - Brev 27, 1872.