Highlights from the Jan. 26 devotional:

• Pursue education as “a priority of the highest order”

• Education is a religious responsibility

• Personal desire and drive are more important than the school or faculty

• It doesn’t matter how long school takes if you know what you want, know how to get it and work hard for it

• Make sure that wisdom and religious knowledge accompany secular knowledge

• Choose carefully what to learn, whose teaching you acquire, whose purposes you fulfill

• Lack of scriptural knowledge is “tragic” and a handicap: Infections killed thousands of people who didn’t know or understand the hygienic counsel in the law of Moses

• How much faith do we have in God? Some people are afraid of overpopulation, but God told us to have families and there are plenty of resources to support them

• “Where is the knowledge we have lost while gaining information?”

• “Where is the wisdom we have lost while gaining knowledge?”

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