Something Better than Happiness

There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness.

Christaholics Vs. Disciples

Many Christians are only "Christaholics" and not disciples at all. Disciples are cross-bearers; they seek Christ. Christaholics seek happiness. ...

Happiness Is...

There is a fairy story about a wealthy merchant, loaded with riches, who was in despair. He wondered why. He asked his companions how he could find happiness. ...

Can't Buy Heaven

Money will buy a bed but not sleep; books but not brains; food but not appetite; finery but not beauty; a house but not a home; medicine but not health; ...

The Cause of Disillusionment

Dr. Jerome Frank at Johns Hopkins talks about our "assumptive world." What he means is that all of us make assumptions about life about God, ...

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.