Happiness Is Our Response

God ... does not lavish his children with a jolly discipleship so that they may swim in spiritual ecstasy between conversion and death. God is a giver, ...

Life Today Is Overrated

I think we have lost the old knowledge that happiness is overrated--that, in a way, life is overrated. We have lost somehow a sense of mystery--about ...

Where Are the Happy People?

Not long ago, as I was talking with one of my teenage sons, he recounted an experience he had on a commuter train outside of New York City. It seems he ...

Realistic Happiness

Who could speak more realistically about the illusion of a yuppie value system than Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who suffered deprivation of all that money ...

A Clear Conscience or None at All

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball,

And that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.

Don't Count on the Ideal

When you define contentment as an ideal match, you're subject to the fact that it's like passion: it often doesn't last long.

Hung Up on Happiness

An English visitor recently commented about U.S. churches, "You Americans are so concerned about being happy," as if our kingdoms were the focal ...

Sex and Happiness

Perhaps one of the most persistent and obviously invalid assumptions of our civilization is that sexual behavior brings happiness. The media trumpet the ...

When Loss Is Gain

In his book of sermons The Living Faith, Lloyd C. Douglas tells the story of Thomas Hearne, who, "in his journey to the mouth of the Coppermine River, ...

Not Seeking Happiness From God

Happiness of heart can no more be attained without God than light and sunshine can be had without the sun. Happiness is heavenly born; its aroma is of ...