Building the Character to Win Life's Battles
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
4.0 • 805 Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Listen to episode 539 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Building a Character to Win Life’s Battles. Edited and adapted from Young People’s Problems by J.R. Miller.
Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. Don’t forget that you can help inspire others by sharing your favorite episodes on Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn. Thank you. Today’s reading was edited and adapted from Young People’s Problems by J.R. Miller, published in 1898.
This world is not a place merely to live in, nor a place only to do certain kinds of business. It is a great workshop in which to make women and men of character.
It is not easy for us to grow into a beautiful life and noble character. Sure, it’s not hard to take a lump of clay, and shape it into any form we desire. It’s fairly easy to take a piece of soft wood, and carve it into a figure of beauty. But it is harder to cut a block of marble into a form of loveliness, for the stone is hard. And it is harder still to take a block of flawed humanity, and make it into a great and noble being. Yet that is what life calls on us to do.
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| 1:05.0 | Today's reading was edited and adapted from Young People's Problems by J.R. Miller, published in 1898. |
| 1:16.6 | This world is not a place merely to live in, nor a place only to do certain kinds of business. It is a great workshop in which to make women and men of character. |
| 1:21.6 | It is not easy for us to grow into a beautiful life of noble character. Sure, it's not hard to take a lump of clay and shape it into any form we desire. |
| 1:34.3 | It's fairly easy to take a piece of soft wood and carve it into a figure of beauty, |
| 1:42.3 | but it is harder to cut a block of marble into a form of |
| 1:47.0 | loveliness, for the stone is hard, and it is harder still to take a block of flawed humanity |
| 1:54.7 | and make it into a great and noble being. Yet that is what life calls on us to do. A baby is not an adult. It may be very |
| 2:06.4 | beautiful and sweet. It may have folded up in its life many fine possibilities, but it is |
| 2:13.6 | only a baby. All its lessons have yet to be learned. Its powers have yet to be developed. |
| 2:21.8 | The capacities that lie folded up in its hand, brain, and heart have yet to be brought out and |
| 2:28.4 | trained. Its character has yet to be fashioned into loveliness and strength. |
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