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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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"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved."
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"Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action."
"Seeking happiness is not the problem. The problem is that we often do not know where and how to find genuine happiness and so make the mistakes that cause suffering for ourselves & others."
"The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile."
"A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on."
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"For example, your man might think: I don't steal. Maybe on my taxes, everyone does that, but not in the way I heard so and so stole from his company. See? Those men for whose opinion he cares approve of embezzlement in one area, not the other. He uses them to maintain a claim on goodness while at the same time stealing."
"Finally, slowly, drippingly, degrade the term Choice down to its most meager means: The red car not the black one. The 9:25 showing, not the 7:15. Ritz not Wheat Thins."
"The Bible is the one book we've most succeeded in having them never read as a book. Keep it that way."
"Guilt, if cultivated in a Christian client, can render their Christianity worthless to themselves and others."
"They think that if they had more belief they would pray more, so keep them lacking. Never let them realize that the opposite is true: If they prayed more, they would have more belief."
"Turning an experience about to observe it, results in a lessening of the experience directly proportional to the amount of observation. To think about it is, to some degree, to stop the pleasure, to stop the experience, to step outside it."
"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."
"You see my point? The average person has a very average notion of goodness to which they aspire averagely. To aspire to goodness in any remarkable way would be 'undemocratic'."
"I don't even like the phrase 'opportunity to sin' because it implies the opportunity to obey."
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