If your thoughts, dear brother and sister, were directed more in the channel of caring for others, your own souls would receive greater blessings. You both have too little human sympathy. You do not bring your feelings to the necessities of others. You hold yourselves too rigid and unsympathizing. You have become stern, exacting, and overbearing. You are in danger of making yourselves conscience for others. You have your own ideas of Christian duties and propriety, and you would gauge others by those ideas; this is overreaching the bounds of right. {4T 61.1}

Hvis jeres tanker kære bror og søster, blev ledt mere i en kanal, der bekymrer sig for andre, ville I selv få større velsignelser. I begge har for lidt forståelse for mennesker. I nærer ikke følelser for andres behov. I holder jer for strenge og uforstående. I er blevet strenge, for nøjeregnende og hovne. I er i fare for at gøre jer til samvittighed for andre. I har jeres egne ideer om kristne pligter og sømmelighed og I vil måle andre med disse normer, - dette er at strække sig ud over rigtighedens bånd.