An Inspirational Christmas Story
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
4.0 • 805 Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Podcast Manuscript: The world’s attitude towards the birth of every great truth is focused in a single phrase in the simple story of the first Christmas, the greatest birthday since time began. Mary laid the infant Christ in a manger because (quote) —“there was no room for them in the inn.”
For worldly success, fame, social prestige, laurel-crowned triumph, the inn is illuminated; welcoming music fills the air; and the inn doors are thrown wide open. But the struggle towards sublime attainment, heroic effort to better the world, simple consecration of soul to a noble ideal, means the manger — and a lonely pathway lit only by the torch of truth held high in the hand of purpose.
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| 1:42.8 | Welcome to Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the inspirational living podcast. |
| 1:44.6 | I hope that all of you are having a joyful Christmas and holiday season, |
| 1:49.6 | while reflecting on the blessings of the past year. |
| 1:53.4 | Today I have for you a special Christmas talk, |
| 1:57.1 | which was edited and adapted from |
| 1:59.3 | The Crown of Individuality by William George Jordan, published in 1909. |
| 2:08.0 | The world's attitude towards the birth of every great truth is focused in a single phrase in the simple story of the first Christmas, |
| 2:20.4 | the greatest birthday since time began. |
| 2:25.0 | Mary laid the infant Christ in a manger because, quote, |
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