Make Your Life Worthwhile

by Emmet Fox

Make Your Life Worthwhile by Emmet Fox
This inspirational self-help book offers spiritual guidance for personal growth and fulfillment. Fox emphasizes positive thinking, faith, and self-awareness as tools for overcoming challenges, achieving happiness, and living with purpose, drawing from Christian metaphysical principles.

Genres: Spirituality, Nonfiction, Self Help

163 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1946

About the author

Emmet Fox was a New Thought spiritual leader of the early 20th century, famous for his large Divine Science church services held in New York City during the Depression.

Reviews

[Katy Koivastik · Rating 5 out of 5]

I commend the great comedian Eddie Murphy for mentioning this book either in print or on television, I cannot remember which.

“Make Your Life Worthwhile” offers spiritual guidance, telling readers to slow down, purge negative thoughts and remember that today is all we really have.

Eddie’s consistently calm affect affirms that this book is one to keep close at hand.

[Floyd D Brown · Rating 5 out of 5]

I enjoy reading books with depth. This is an excellent example of a book that can be read at a leisure pace with principles that can be applied immediately. Some books in my library, I usually only read once, this is one of those books along with Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E Frankl that I'll read several times.

[Maureen Brooks · Rating 4 out of 5]

Resourceful, insightful, great guidance and a key for spiritual growth. This was an Eddie Murphy recommendation. Having a copy in your library to use as a great reference would definitely help you Make Your Life Worthwhile.

[Allison · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent way to start the morning! Great for devotionals.

[Ibrahim · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the things I love about this book is that it always brings me back to God, to be on His wavelength and talk to Him and also hear from him. No more praying hard. People will ask you to pray hard. But it turns out that they have been going about it the wrong way. Listen him explain why not to pray hard:

WHEN what seems an especially difficult problem, or a great emergency,
presents itself, many students of Truth handle it in the wrong way. They start by thinking, “This is very serious,” and then proceed to brace themselves mentally, so to speak, for a supreme effort; and plan to pray exceedingly “hard,” or for a good many hours, in order to meet the difficulty.
All this is quite wrong. It simply builds up the problem into something far bigger than it was originally. Then they proceed to make a great mental effort to put power into the prayer. This again is quite wrong, because their mental power cannot do anything—only God can heal the condition—and this effort is really to affirm that He may not act.
The right attitude, the one that brings Victory, is:
1. To think “God can and will solve this problem if I adopt the right mental attitude.”
2. Instead of speaking the Word from the low altitude of fear and limitation, and trusting to effort to magnify the Word; stop thinking of the problem altogether, and rise in consciousness. Take as long for this as may be necessary— a few seconds, a few minutes, or hours, or even days.
3. Having now attained a higher level—speak the Word gently from that level, and your problem will be solved.
We rise in consciousness by thinking about God, until we become really interested in Him. The altitude will vary with different people, as will the time needed to attain it, and these things will differ at different times for the same person.
Of course, this higher level of consciousness is not anything dreamy or abnormal. It is simply a healthy and rational interest in God.

[Neil Saltmarsh · Rating 4 out of 5]

I thought that this book tries to spiritualise without the presence of God, but on the whole found the book helpful and interesting. I think it reflects the writer's time when they sought scientific approach to Christianity without a denominational slant and that is interesting. However, you can only proceed so far with yourself and God and it needs community which this doesn't so much embrace. Given that some Christian community can be unwelcoming and judgmental, it is still necessary for each of us to encourage each other, confess our faults to each other, forgive one another and share life together. Very good suggestions in living a positive life

[Jen · Rating 2 out of 5]

I think that my issue with this book was it was too repetitive and simplistic. The “everyday” ideas the author used to demonstrate spiritual ideas were a stretch—and maybe this is due to the older nature of the book—but I found myself rolling my eyes too often. Don’t get me wrong. There are truths and good ideas and advice in this book. It is a great place for someone beginning their or coming back to their own spiritual journey. I just was not particularly inspired to do better or be better by the content of this book.

[Deirdre · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great daily book

This is a book of short essays by Emmet Fox. They are perfect for a daily reading or as a reminder of the basic precepts presented in Mr Fox's other books. Clear and pointed.

[Mark Holencik · Rating 5 out of 5]

Emmet Fox's compilation of short stories on practical application of spiritual ideals, that promote deeper thought. We just got done reading this book in a study group.

[Cynthia · Rating 4 out of 5]

always love reading anything by him - some of this book has been repeated in other book compilations, but there was new material here