Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students - Ellen G. White

Jesus Christ, which reveals salvation and
immortality and life, His heritage are to be
educated, not in the minutia of etiquette, the
world’s fashions and forms, but in the science of
godliness.
The Necessity Of Doing Our Best
The Lord has made provision that the nobler
powers of the mind should be trained for high
pursuits. But instead of this, men pervert the
faculties of the mind and press them into the
service of temporal interests, as if the attainment of
the things of this earth were of supreme
importance. In this way the higher powers are
dwarfed and men remain unqualified for the duties
of life that devolve upon them. If the nobler powers
of the mind are not cultivated, they fail to act with
integrity, even in the obligations relating to this
life. It is Satan’s design that the faculties of the
mind shall become belittled and sensualized, but it
is not God’s will that any should yield the mind to
the control of the evil one. In intellectual and in
spiritual pursuits, He would have His children
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