Making a life is a larger thing than making a living. Many a man has made a good living who has made a poor life. Some men have made splendid lives who have made very moderate or even scanty livings. Such was Goldsmith's village preacher, who was "passing rich on forty pounds a year." Such was the citizen of Germany, and of the world, who earned hardly three hundred dollars in any single year of his journey here; yet few men have ever had more out of life than Martin Luther. It behooves us, therefore, to consider how we may add to our making of a living the making of a life. So to make a living as to make also the capability of enjoying a living, of using a living after we have made it;so to make a living as also to make a character, a faith, a hope, a soul—this is to add to the making of our living the making of a life.—
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Making a life is a larger thing than making a living
From the October 1910 issue of The Christian Science Journal
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