Appetite Deadens Perceptive Faculties—The world’s Redeemer knew that indulgence of appetite was bringing physical debility and deadening the perceptive faculties so that sacred and eternal things could not be discerned. He knew that self-indulgence was perverting the moral powers and that man’s great need was conversion—in heart and mind and soul, from the life of self-indulgence to one of self-denial and self-sacrifice.— Letter 158, 1909. {1MCP 334.3}

Appetitten sløver opfattelsesevnerne. - Verdens Forløser vidste at eftergivenhed for appetitten medførte fysisk svaghed og afdæmpning af opfattelsesevnerne, så at hellige og evige ting ikke kan ses. Han vidste at eftergivenhed til selvet forvanskede de moralske kræfter og at menneskets store behov var omvendelse - i hjerte, sind og sjæl fra selvmedlidenhedens liv til et liv i selvfornægtelse og selvopofrelse. - Brev 158, 1909. (MM 264.)