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Well-balanced Minds—All the powers of the mind should be
called into use and developed, in order for men and women to have
well-balanced minds. The world is full of one-sided men and women,
who have become such because one set of their faculties was cultivated,
while others were dwarfed from inaction. The education of most youth
is a failure. They overstudy, while they neglect that which pertains
to practical business life. Men and women become parents without
considering their responsibilities, and their offspring sink lower in the
scale of human deficiency than they themselves. Thus the race is fast
degenerating.—
Counsels on Health, 179 (1872)
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Wise Improvement of Talents a Blessing—There must be no
burying of our talents in the earth, to corrode through inaction. A per-
sistent indulgence of self, a refusal to exercise our God-given abilities,
will insure our eternal separation from God, the loss of an eternity of
bliss. These gifts are bestowed upon us in accordance with our ability
to use them, and the wise improvement of each will prove a blessing
to us, and will bring glory to God. Every gift gratefully received is a
link in the chain which binds us to heaven.—
The Signs of the Times,
August 18, 1898
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Balance in Time Management Necessary
Must Give Strict Account of Our Time—Our time belongs to
God. Every moment is His, and we are under the most solemn obli-
gation to improve it to His glory. Of no talent He has given will
He require a more strict account than of our time.—
Christ’s Object
Lessons, 342 (1900)
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Balance Watching and Working for the Coming of the Lord—
When we give ourselves unreservedly to the Lord, the simple, com-
monplace duties of home life will be seen in their true importance,
and we shall perform them in accordance with the will of God. We
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are to be vigilant, watching for the coming of the Son of man; and we
must also be diligent; working as well as waiting is required; there
must be a union of the two. This will balance the Christian character,
making it well developed, symmetrical. We should not feel that we are
to neglect everything else, and give ourselves up to meditation, study,
or prayer; neither are we to be full of bustle and hurry and work, to
the neglect of personal piety. Waiting and watching and working are