Employ the time of your youth in developing the character and skills necessary to be a useful servant of God
“Avoid trivial pursuits. You are a child of God, destined for glory, and called to do great things in His Name. Do not waste your life on hobbies, sports, and other recreational pursuits. […] Employ the time of your youth in developing the character and skills necessary to be a useful servant of God.”
Paul David Washer
“The true worker puts the quality of his life into all his service; the painter paints with his soul; the preacher preaches with his soul; if the soul is not interested in the work, the work will crumble away, leaving no memorial.”
– Joseph Parker
“If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead”
– William Law
“The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light”
– Matthew 6:22
Wisdom of the Ages 