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

accountability are essential. In putting into practice
that which you are learning during your student
days, do not shrink from bearing your share of
responsibility because there are risks to take,
because something must be ventured. Do not leave
others to be brains for you. You must train your
powers to be strong and vigorous; then the
entrusted talents will grow, as a steady, uniform,
unyielding energy is exercised in bearing
individual responsibility. God would have you add,
day by day, little by little, to your stock of ideas,
acting as if the moments were jewels, to be
carefully gathered and discreetly cherished. You
will thus acquire breadth of thought and strength of
intellect.
God will not require of man a more strict
account of anything than of the way in which he
has occupied his time. Have its hours been wasted
and abused? God has granted to us the precious
boon of life not to be devoted to selfish
gratification. Our work is too solemn, our time to
serve God and our fellow men too short, to be
spent in seeking for fame. Oh, if men would stop in
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