Your spirit is strong. When you take a position you do not weigh the matter well and consider what must be the effect of your maintaining your views and in an independent manner weaving them into your prayers and conversation, when you know that your wife does not hold the same views that you do. Instead of respecting the feelings of your wife, and kindly avoiding, as a gentleman would, those subjects upon which you know you differ, you have been forward to dwell upon objectionable points, and have manifested a persistency in expressing your views regardless of any around you. You have felt that others had no right to see matters differently from yourself. These fruits do not grow upon the Christian tree. {2T 418.2}

Søster P, du kan aldrig være til nytte i verden hvis dine mål ikke er stærke nok og du overvinder denne uvillighed mod at påtage omsorg og bære byrder. Idet du daglig bruger de kræfter der er i dig, vil arbejdet blive mindre svært, indtil det vil blive naturligt for dig at gøre pligter og være omhyggelig og flittig. Du kan vænne dig selv til at tænke, (429) når du lægger mindre byrde på din mave. Denne byrde belaster hjernen.