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Book: Happiness
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Randy Alcorn _ Happiness
Augustine was right: "It is the decided opinion of all who use their brains that all men desire to be happy. . . . The happy life which all men desire cannot be reached by any who does not cleave with a pure and holy love to that one supreme good, the unchangeable God.
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Randy Alcorn _ Happiness
John Wesley said, "A sour religion is the devil's religion."{284} The sure way to have a sour religion is to believe in a sour God. We play right into the devil's hands when we fail to recognize and teach the happiness of God.
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Randy Alcorn _ Happiness
Nothing can make that man truly miserable that hath God for his portion, nor nothing can make that man truly happy that {lacks} God for his portion. God is the author of all true happiness; he is the donor of all true happiness; he is the maintainer of all true happiness, and he is the centre of all true happiness. . . . He that hath him for his God, for his portion, is the only happy man in the world."
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Randy Alcorn _ Happiness
No amount of regret changes the past. No amount of anxiety changes the future. Any amount of grateful joy changes the present.
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Randy Alcorn _ Happiness
We should thank God for every stream of joy in our lives while recognizing that Christ is the ocean from which every stream flows.
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Randy Alcorn _ Happiness
It's possible for someone to act sacrificially and selflessly in the best interests of others while enjoying the fruit: feeling good about having done well and receiving God's approval and reward.
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Randy Alcorn _ Happiness
SCRIVEN {1820–1886} wrote "What a Friend We Have in Jesus" after his fiancée drowned. George Matheson {1842–1906} wrote "O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go" after his fiancée rejected him because he was going blind.
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Randy Alcorn _ Happiness
Thomas Watson {1620–1686}, a Puritan preacher and author, said, "He has no design upon us, but to make us happy. . . . Who should be cheerful, if not the people of God?
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Randy Alcorn _ Happiness
Octavius Winslow was a prominent evangelical preacher in the 1800s. He said of the Holy Spirit, "It is his aim . . . to increase our happiness by making us more holy."{717}
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Randy Alcorn _ Happiness
We see that the world seeks happiness instead of holiness. Therefore, we assume we should do the opposite. But we're wrong.
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Randy Alcorn _ Happiness
Tozer wrote, When the followers of Jesus Christ lose their interest in heaven they will no longer be happy Christians, and when they are no longer happy Christians they cannot be a powerful force in a sad and sinful world.
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Randy Alcorn _ Happiness
Our degree of happiness in life largely depends on: the amount of happiness we believe should be rightfully ours our ability to find delight in a fallen world God will redeem our ability to see the little things-the ten thousand reasons for happiness that surround us that we easily ignore"
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