"Our time belongs to God.
Every moment is His, and we are under the most solemn obligation to improve it to His glory.
Of no talent He has given will He require a more strict account than of our time.
Life is too short to be trifled away.
We have but a few days of probation in which to prepare for eternity.
It is now that we are to prepare for the searching judgment.
The human family have scarcely begun to live when they begin to die....time squandered can never be recovered.
We cannot call back even one moment.
The opportunity that is now ours to speak to some needy soul the word of life may never offer again. God may say to that one, "This night thy soul shall be required of thee," and through our neglect he may not be ready. (Luke 12:20.).
Life is too solemn to be absorbed in temporal and earthly matters, in a treadmill of care and anxiety for the things that are but an atom in comparison with the things of eternal interest.
Yet God has called us to serve Him in the temporal affairs of life. Diligence in this work is as much a part of true religion as is devotion.
The Bible gives no indorsement to idleness.
It is the greatest curse that afflicts our world.
Many who through diligent labor might have been a blessing to the world, have been ruined through idleness.
Lack of employment and of steadfast purpose opens the door to a thousand temptations.
Christ's Object Lessons, E.G.W.
Every moment is His, and we are under the most solemn obligation to improve it to His glory.
Of no talent He has given will He require a more strict account than of our time.
We have but a few days of probation in which to prepare for eternity.
We have no time to waste,
no time to devote to selfish pleasure,
no time for the indulgence of sin.
It is now that we are to form characters for the future, immortal life.It is now that we are to prepare for the searching judgment.
The human family have scarcely begun to live when they begin to die....time squandered can never be recovered.
We cannot call back even one moment.
Every moment is freighted
with eternal consequences.
Life is too solemn to be absorbed in temporal and earthly matters, in a treadmill of care and anxiety for the things that are but an atom in comparison with the things of eternal interest.
Yet God has called us to serve Him in the temporal affairs of life. Diligence in this work is as much a part of true religion as is devotion.
The Bible gives no indorsement to idleness.
It is the greatest curse that afflicts our world.
Many who through diligent labor might have been a blessing to the world, have been ruined through idleness.
Lack of employment and of steadfast purpose opens the door to a thousand temptations.
--Evil companions and
--vicious habits
deprave mind and soul,
and the result is ruin for this life and for the life to come."Christ's Object Lessons, E.G.W.
