Keep the mind concentrated on a few vital points. Do not bring unimportant ideas into your discourses. God would not have you think that you are impressed by His Spirit when you fly from your subject, bringing in foreign matters that have no connection with your text. By wandering from straight lines, and bringing in that which calls the mind off the subject, you lose your bearing, and weaken all that you have previously said. Give your hearers pure wheat, thoroughly winnowed. {6T 56.2}

Hold tankerne koncentreret på nogle få vitale punkter. Bring ikke uvæsentlige tanker ind i jeres prædikener. Gud vil ikke have, at I tror at I er indprentet af hans Ånd når, I flyver fra jeres emne og bringer fremmede ting ind, som ikke har noget med jeres tekst at gøre. Forlader I de lige linjer og bringer det ind, som bortleder tankerne fra emnet, mister I jeres forbindelse og svækker alt hvad I før har sagt. Giv jeres tilhører ren hvede, grundigt renset for avner.