Ellen Gould White
What does Ellen White write about...
Ellen Gould White über: "High Professional Goals"
Answer
According to the available writings, high professional goals should not be directed toward selfish or purely material interests, but toward Christlikeness and service to others. The highest standard is reached when one improves oneself while seeking all that is good, pure, and noble. Success in a profession requires a clear, noble goal and perseverance.
Secular standards such as fame, wealth, or superiority over others are described as deceptive—true greatness consists in the greatness of the soul before God.
\n\nGod's Ideal for Professional Goals
\n\n\n\n»Higher than the highest human thought can reach is God's ideal for His children. Christlikeness is the goal to be attained. Before the student a path of continual progress opens. He has a goal before his eyes, a standard to achieve that encompasses all that is good, pure, and noble. He will advance as quickly and as far as possible in every branch of true knowledge. Yet his efforts will be directed toward goals that are as much higher than mere selfish and temporal interests as the heavens are higher than the earth.«
Striving for the Highest Standard
\n\n\n»Whoever recognizes the possibilities and privileges of his work will leave nothing behind on the path of serious striving for self-improvement. He will not shy away from effort to reach the highest standard of excellence. Everything he wishes his students to become, he will strive to be himself.«
True Greatness Compared to Worldly Striving
\n\n\n»People may strive for fame. They may wish to have a great name. For some, the possession of houses, land, and much money is what makes them great according to the world's measure—that is the pinnacle of their ambition. All such things are built on sand. Superiority of position is not true greatness. The only thing worth attaining is the greatness of the soul in the sight of heaven.«
Secular versus Christian Standards in the Profession
\n\n»The policy that secular businessmen apply is not the policy that should be chosen and carried out by the men who are connected with our institutions. The secular standard should not be the standard of those who are connected with holy things.«
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