Listen to a sample episode Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Essays on Work and Culture by Little Builders by Dorothy Grenside, published in 1916. Podcast Excerpt: We are all builders. You are building every minute of the day. With every thought or deed you add a little to your work. But whether you build a Castle Beautiful or just an ugly barn depends upon the kind of Thought-Bricks that you make, and the Will with which you work. Our Sponsors: * Check out Factor and use my code...

Listen to episode 879 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Work, Play & Keeping a Youthful Spirit. Edited and adapted from Invincible Power by John Henry Remmers. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Your life must be organized. The very planets in the heavens demonstrate this law, and thereby prove that the universe could not be sustained if it were not for the potent principle of Order. In the Divine plan there is no confusion. All things move deliberately for the purpose of growth. Likewise...

Listen to episode 878 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Achieving the Right Kind of Success in Life. Edited and adapted from Within You is the Power by Henry Thomas Hamblin. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The person who would be successful in the battle of life, must be prepared to be tested and tried in every possible way. The one who survives them all is built up in character in almost every direction. However, even in their success, they will be tempted and tried. If you are engaged in...

Listen to a sample episode Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Essays on Work and Culture by Hamilton Wright Mabie, published in 1898. Podcast Excerpt: Work (in every form) is not only a supreme spiritual opportunity, but the highest spiritual privilege, and one of the deepest sources of joy. It is an expression not only of human energy but of the creativeness of the human spirit. By their works people have not only built homes for themselves in this vast universe, but they...

Listen to episode 877 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Quality that Makes or Breaks You. Edited and adapted from The Making of the Man by Edward Ward Carmack. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Trust me, my friends; there is one person whose honest good opinion is worth more to your peace of mind than all the world. That person is yourself. So, while you are striving honorably to win and to retain the good opinion of all good people, remember, after all, that your reputation is only what...

Listen to episode 876 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Making the Days of Our Life Great. Edited and adapted from As Natural as Life by Charles Gordon Ames. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The years of a tree's life can be counted by the rings in its woody trunk. And, by looking at how these annual growths differ in thickness, we can tell or guess what years were friendly or backward, warm or cold, wet or dry. Thus the tree writes in itself the history of its life and the record of all...

Listen to a sample episode Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Be Good to Yourself by Orison Swett Marden, published in 1910. Podcast Excerpt: All through the Bible are passages which show that love is a health-tonic and actually lengthens life. This is because Love is harmony, and harmony prolongs life, just as fear, jealousy, envy, and discord shorten it. There is no doubt that those who are filled with the spirit of love — whose sympathies and tenderness are not confined to their...

Listen to episode 875 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: How to Be the Best and Receive the Best. Edited and adapted from The Ideal Made Real by Christian D. Larson. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The first essential is to create a cheerful world in the imagination. Picture in your mind the brightest states of existence that you can think of, and impress joy upon your mind at all times. Feel joy, think joy, and make every action of mind and body thrill with joy — before long you will have...

Listen to episode 874 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: How to Attract the Good Things of Life. Edited and adapted from The Ideal Made Real by Christian D. Larson. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: When things are not to your liking, like them as they are. In other words, while you are working for greater things, make friends with the lesser things, and they will help you to reach your goal. The person who is dissatisfied with things as they are, and discontented because things are not to...

Listen to a sample episode Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from How to Be Happy by Grace Gold, published in 1893. Podcast Excerpt: There is a phrase we often hear when standing up for what is right: "Consider the consequences!" That is the devil's argument. Leave consequences to God, but do the right. Even if friends abandon you, do the right. Be genuine, real, sincere, and up-right. The world's maxim is to trim your sails and yield to circumstances. But if you would do any good for the...

Listen to episode 873 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Amazing Power of Your Sub-Conscious Mind. Edited and adapted from Within You is the Power by Henry Thomas Hamblin. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: A good way of starting the use of the sub-conscious mind is to hold the problem in your mind just as you are going to sleep. There must not be any attempt made to solve the problem or worry over it. Instead, the main facts of the issue, on both sides, must be organized, and the case...

Listen to episode 872 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Use Your Inner Power. Edited and adapted from Find and Use Your Inner Power by Emmet Fox. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The moment you catch yourself thinking a negative thought, you should reject it instantly. Immediately switch your attention to something positive, something rejuvenating. Do not stop to say “good- bye” to the error thought, but break the connection instantly, and occupy your mind with good; you will be...

Listen to a sample episode Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from On the Heights by Christian D. Larson, published in 1908. Podcast Excerpt: When we transcend the world of things, and begin to live on the borderland of the splendor and immensity of the cosmic world, we discover that the vision of our soul was true. Those lofty realms that we have dreamed of so often, and so long, are dreams no more. We find those realms to be real. The prophetic visions of our sublime moments are...

Listen to episode 871 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Sure Cure for Unhappiness. Edited and adapted from Character and Happiness by Alvin Edwin Magary. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Blessed is the woman and man who really knows what they want, and who bravely sets themselves on a course to get it. You will be surprised to discover (when you consider the matter) that there are many good things in the world that you can very well do without. Every time you cross off something that you...

Listen to episode 870 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Say Goodbye to Your Fears. Edited and adapted from Peace, Power, and Plenty by Orison Swett Marden. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The worst waste of energy in human life is caused by that fatal habit of anticipating evil, of fearing what the future has in store for us. And under no circumstances can the fear or worry be justified by the situation, for it is always an imaginary one, utterly groundless and without foundation. What we...

Listen to a sample episode Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from All’s Right with the World by Charles B. Newcomb. Podcast Excerpt: We have heard much of the so called "conflict" between science and religion. But there can be no disharmony between true science and true religion. The conflict is always between false science and religion, or between science and "superstition," which is false religion. ------------ Become our patron and get our podcast with full transcripts and without ads...

Listen to episode 869 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Make the Most Your Opportunities. Edited and adapted from As Others (Ithers) See Us by John Thomas Huddle. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Some people seem to be preordained to be lucky and successful, regardless of what they do, and others preordained to be failures, no matter how hard they try. This is all wrong. There is no such thing as luck. The law of every kingdom of the universe is "as we sow, so shall we...

Listen to episode 868 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Secret of the Great Life | Spiritual Podcasts. Edited and adapted from In the Light of the Spirit by Christian D. Larson. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: We are not here to drift with the stream or to fold our arms passively and say that we will let the best come to pass. The truth is, that if there be anything we want, we must work for it. If we wish to make life ideal, we must make it so ourselves.  The things we desire do not...

Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Growth in Silence, the Undertone of Life by Susanna Cocroft, published in 1917. Podcast Excerpt: There can be no true harmony of existence unless we have poise — unless our physical, mental, and moral forces are in proper balance. There are latent possibilities in every nature which become potent with new thoughts, new aspirations, new ideals — when we meet the emergencies in life with a sense of power within, of...

Listen to episode 867 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Winning the Challenge of Life. Edited and adapted from The Challenge of Life by Charles Forrest Moore. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: When I look back over the years of my eventful, if yet unprofitable, life, I believe that not a single day nor hour of it has been lived in strict accordance with my original intent. I have not only been surprised by the repeated changes in my plans, but I have been startled as well by the swiftness and...

Listen to episode 866 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Best of Your Life is Yet to Be! Edited and adapted from Life’s Byways and Waysides by J.R. Miller. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The best of life is yet to be! And the way to reach the better things is by forgetting the things that are behind us, and to always reach forward to the things which are ahead. Of course, there is a proper use to be made of our past. We should remember the lessons we have learned from past experience,...

Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from The Heart of New Thought by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, published in 1902. Podcast Excerpt: NEVER say that you wish your situation were different! Never wish you had some other person's life, troubles, or worries. Accept your own as a working basis, the life that is best for you. Then go ahead and change whatever displeases you. Remember that you are the maker and molder of your own destiny. You do not recall the fact, but you...

Listen to episode 865 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Choose Your Life’s Road. Edited and adapted from The Call of the Upper Road by Kathrine Ross Logan. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: All roads start from where you are. They run in all directions, and you may wonder which is the best road to take. All have a way of their own of inviting you, and each has its own particular enticements. Roads seem to know you and expect you. They keep open for you both day and night. But there is...

Listen to episode 864 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Live a Life Worthy of Immortality. Edited and adapted from Making a Life by Cortland Myers. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: A noble purpose is life's guarding, guiding angel. It alone can take us safely through a lion's den. In one hand it holds safety, and in the other success. A high ideal is a lever under your life, and means the elevation of your character. The person who is satisfied with their first effort, or their first step,...

Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Evening Round Up by William Crosbie Hunter. Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. Today I would like to share with you an episode of the Our Sunday Talks series which we offer to our patrons. It’s a useful reminder that one of the greatest gifts that we can give to a friend, family member, or loved one is a few words (be it in a letter or face to face) expressing how much that other person means...