If you possess earnestness and steadiness of purpose, your mind will come back, in a degree, to dwelling upon more healthful, pure subjects. Self-indulgence has degenerated by degrees into such a wantonness of will as knows not how to please itself. Instead of regulating your actions by reason and principle, you suffer yourself to be guided by every slight and momentary impulse. This makes you appear variable and inconstant. It is vain for others to seek to please you, for you could not please yourself, even if all your wishes were indulged. You are a capricious child and have become sick of yourself through very selfishness. {2T 325.2}

De unge som vokser op blandt os er ikke så bekymrede som de burde være. Nogle af brødrene kan have opgaver de ikke er villige eller rede til at se eller udføre. Frygten for at ulejlige sig selv er for mange undskyldning nok. Guds dag vil afsløre uløste opgaver - mistede sjæle fordi den selviske ikke ville tage umagen og at interessere sig for andres bedste.