Making the Most of Life
by Miller, J. R
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From the book:According to our Lord's teaching, we can make the most of our life by losing it. He says that losing the life for his sake is saving it. There is a lower self that must be trampled down and trampled to death by the higher self. The alabaster vase must be broken, that the ointment may flow out to fill the house. The grapes must be crushed, that there may be wine to drink. The wheat must be bruised, before it can become bread to feed hunger. It is so in life. Whole, unbruised, unbroken men are of but little use. True living is really a succession of battles, in which the better triumphs over the worse, the spirit over the flesh. Until we cease to live for self, we have not begun to live at all. We can never become truly useful and helpful to others until we have learned this lesson. One may live for self and yet do many pleasant things for others; but one's life can never become the great blessing to the world it was meant to be until the law of self-sacrifice has become its heart principle.
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- Making the Most of Life
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- Miller, J. R
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- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair +
- Publisher
- Thomas Crowell & Co
- Place of Publication
- New York and Boston
- Date Published
- 1891
- Keywords
- Religion
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- Metaphysics;
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