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"To pursue happiness outside our Maker, and outside the way he made us, is to our demise."

"Our expectation of happiness in this world leads to disappointment because, in reality we're made for another."

"Real, genuine. lasting happiness on  this earth is a by-product of pursuing heaven."

"Happiness is the result of self-forgetfulness. The less you and I put ourselves at the center, the more we center God and other people, the happier we'll be." 

"Happiness can't be aimed at directly, because it's a by-product. Genuine, lasting happiness can't be achieved in and of itself."


"Our attempts at happiness are often both shortsighted and self-focused, resulting in disappointment and even misery."

"All of us want the sturdiest happiness we can find, but most of us look for it in all the wrong places."

"Sin plagues us all, and it particularly plagues our pursuit of happiness precisely because sin makes us unhappy, yet we willingly sin anyway, convinced that each new sin will somehow have a different result."