Mixed Marriages—If you, my brother, are allured to unite your life interest with a young, inexperienced girl, who is really deficient in education in the common, practical, daily duties of life, you make a mistake; but this deficiency is small compared with her ignorance in regard to her duty to God. She has not been destitute of light; she has had religious privileges, and yet she has not felt her wretched sinfulness without Christ. If, in your infatuation, you can repeatedly turn from the prayer meeting—where God meets with His people—in order to enjoy the society of one who has no love for God and who sees no attractions in the religious life, how can you expect God to prosper such a union?—Testimonies for the Church 3:44 (1872). {1MCP 304.1}

Blandede ægteskaber. - Dersom du, min broder, lokkes til at forene dine livsinteresser med en ung uerfaren pige, som i virkeligheden har fået en mangelfuld opdragelse i de almindelige praktiske daglige pligter i livet, begår du en fejl. Men disse hendes mangler er små sammenlignet med hendes uvidenhed vedrørende hendes pligter over for Gud. Hun har ikke været blottet for lys; hun har haft religiøse privilegier, men alligevel har hun ikke følt hvor syndefuld hun er, når hun står uden Kristus. Når du i din forgabelse gentagne gange undlader at gå til bønnemøder, hvor Gud velsigner sit folk og du bliver borte for at nyde en sådan ung kvindes selskab, som ikke har nogen kærlighed til Gud og som ikke føler nogen tiltrækning ved det religiøse liv, hvorledes kan du da forvente, at Gud skulle velsigne en sådan forening? - vidnesbyrd 3 44 (1872).