Live a life of purpose in a bustling world. Real life is found in daily choices and shared responsibility.
This is a collection of essays that explore how faith, work, and character shape everyday life. Written in 1914, it argues that religion is best seen in what people do—how they treat others, stand by their duties, and build a just, hopeful community. The book invites readers to look beyond abstract ideas and to work with their neighbors to meet life’s real demands.
- Discover why public opinion and personal conscience matter in a connected society
- Explore how will-power, loyalty, and responsibility shape individuals and communities
- Consider how everyday actions—in business, home life, and public life—build a more humane world
- Reflect on endurance, kindness, and courage in times of crisis and change
Ideal for readers seeking practical philosophy, moral guidance, and a clear call to live with integrity in the open world.
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Excerpt from The Real Life
A religion is true not by what it teaches but by what it achieves. What we demand is not that' it have provable principles but that it train men so that they maintain and ad vance life. The Bible is not a book of faith but an account how men and a people worked out the great human problems, and history shows that the Jews have evidenced their faith in every direction of culture. Men are turning today away from the abstractions to the reali ties and find abundant and very appealing occasions for high-minded thought and motive in the humblest duty and obligation. Religion has become real and forceful in the very midst of the business of life.
The pages that follow were written under the stress of this conviction.
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Paperback. Condición: New. Print on Demand. This book considers religion not as a set of doctrines, but as a practical means to maintain and improve the quality of human life. True religion, the author argues, promotes human welfare in all aspects of our existence, as individuals and as a collective society. Religion is most effective not when it provides abstract answers to unanswerable questions about the existence of God, but when it offers practical guidance for fostering human dignity and well-being. This wide-ranging book examines the role that faith-based institutions and individuals can play in improving our lives and building a more just and equitable world. Ultimately, the author contends that religion must embrace real-world concerns to be a guiding force in our lives. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9781330836163_0
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