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Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

The Living Hour

Health & Fitness, Spirituality, Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health, Religion & Spirituality

3.8 • 799 Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Podcast Excerpt: Make life happier and you will make it holier. Make it full of pleasure (and not that of a fool's paradise). Make it that of peace with heaven's plans, with the joy of knowing that over all is infinite love, with the strength that comes from knowing right is invincible, with the tender and sweet joys that spring up at the touch of human love. Go your own way to make them paths of gladness, to show love shining through sorrow, to give love generously to all, and yours shall be a religious life of service indeed.

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1:49.2	Welcome to Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living Podcast. Today's talk was edited and adapted from Levels of Living, Essays on Everyday Ideals by Henry Frederick Cope, published in 1908. Instead of the strength of your faith being marked by the length of your size, the genuineness of your
1:57.1	religion is to be known by its joyfulness. The same God who gives the sunlight and the
2:04.5	smiling fields, who makes the brooks to laugh through the meadows and the stars to sing at night,
2:13.1	would rather see smiles than frowns on the faces of his children. His glory is not in gloom
2:21.3	but in gladness. He designed this world for happiness, and religion is but the pursuing of his
2:29.3	plans for the good of his children. That which is holy must be happy. Artificial sadness is always sinful.
2:40.8	The church is not sacred because it looks like a sepulchre. Music is not sacred because all the
2:48.7	spring is taken out of it. You do not keep a day sacred to divine ends by
2:55.0	making it dismal. It is a religious duty resting on all to cultivate happiness, to make this
3:04.6	world less sad. No matter how sincere you may be,
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