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"They all want to be happy. They all think they should be happy. And they're quick to trot out their most cherished document and point to where they were promised 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. But you'll find that though they all parrot that little phrase, they think none too hard about that word 'pursuit. To follow, to chase, to inquire, to hunt, to seek. To track in order to overtake and capture. This they don't do. Instead, having been offered a promise of happiness, they progress to a feeling of entitlement for happiness, then make the leap that happiness should, therefore, be easily won, automatic. There's too much wrong in there to even scratch at that!"
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"A joyful life, life of contentment."
"Pleasure is different from "happiness". It has its own definition. Pleasure may or may not come from hard work; Pleasure may or may not come from sin; However, happiness is always divine and comes from fulfillment!"
"Happiness is a spiritual concept and his source is hidden in God."
"Possessions and positions may promote our happiness but cannot create it. Happiness is a state created by self through the realization of how the self is important to the creator."
"If you have enjoyed something, but have never experienced joy, then u have not really been happy."
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"With Truth, Reason, and Morality off the board, we then capture their last Rook -that prissy little virtue, Temperance- for she depends on those other three for her beauty and was thus left wholly undefended."
"Joy is that paradox where a man so trusts, is so enraptured, as to be caught up and lost in the other, while at the same time, being utterly known by the other, thus utterly himself."
"When sex was something godlike, Lust was the profane curiosity that killed many a straying cat. Now, having removed mystery, Lust is less a long-standing, overpowering yearning, more a sudden craving of the appetite. Less quest, more impulse buy."
"Indeed, if their wristbands asked them the question: 'What-Would-Jesus-Buy-well now, that could very well revolutionize the Christian church in America."
"If they ever envision Goodness as a thing that exists outside them, some real thing they've been called to participate in by their actions, well then, we're headed right back toward The Virtues."
"That's where thinking started, where thinking stopped, where all her prayers so long ago had dried up. She no longer prayed, nor even dreamed of changing her father. Her dreams now played variations on the theme of escape. And they were nothing more than that -just dreams, just play. She'd been alone at the end of her dreams so many times before and never had God helped her escape her father, because God couldn't, because she would never escape her need to love him."
"You don't change the world by telling it what to do, sitting at home, and telling it what you believe. You believe by throwing yourself into it. Making a leap, getting involved, then waiting, taking some one person's place for a while, one suffering person at a time."
"Also, always encourage 'being good' over 'doing good.' Acts of goodness are the difficulty for us and should, of course, be avoided. 'Being good' is far less problematic, largely because it lacks definition and can be solely a state of mind completely unattached to reality."
"Though I despise it, I do not doubt His Love for the creatures. I have seen it -His ever-reaching outward for any hand that might reach back. At His love, I tremble yet believe."
"The Adversary, of course, simply wants them to lay down their sins, guilt and all, and follow Him. But this type holds on to their sinfulness and their guilt for it, because otherwise, they'd have no relationship with Him at all. And, of course, no relationship can be based on guilt and survive."
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