The Majesty of Calmness | Inspirational Podcasts

The Majesty of Calmness | Inspirational Podcasts

Author: The Living Hour April 28, 2026 Duration: 15:10

Listen to episode 1116 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Majesty of Calmness. Adapted from The Majesty of Calmness by William George Jordan.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Calmness is the rarest quality in human life. It is the signpost of a great nature, in harmony with itself and its ideals. It is the moral atmosphere of the life self-reliant and the self- controlled. Calmness is singleness of purpose, absolute confidence, and conscious power — ready to be focused in an instant to meet any crisis. 

No person lives their life more fully, more intensely and more consciously than the one who is calm. Fatalists are not calm, but coward slaves of their environment, hopelessly surrendering to their present condition, recklessly indifferent to the future.

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