"themes relating to our eternal interests. This will be conducive to health of body and mind. There are many, even among our preachers, who want to rise in the world without effort. They are ambitious to do some great work of usefulness, while they disregard the little everyday duties which would render them helpful and make them ministers after Christ's order. They wish to do the work others are doing, but have no relish for the discipline necessary to fit them for it. This yearning desire by both men and women to do something far in advance of their present capabilities is simply causing them to make decided failures in the outset. They indignantly refuse to climb the ladder, wishing to be elevated by a less laborious process. 4T 417.2"
"He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much."
EGW's statement about wanting to rise in the world without effort and disregarding small duties directly reflects the principle in Luke 16:10 about faithfulness in small things leading to faithfulness in much.