Happiness turns up more or less where you expect it to—a good marriage, a rewarding job, a pleasant vacation. Joy, on the other hand, is as notoriously unpredictable as the one who bequeaths it.
00478 – Happiness vs. Joy
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00477 – Happiness is a Butterfly
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
00472 – Happiness in Spite of Circumstances
The happiness which brings enduring worth to life is not the superficial happiness that is dependent on circumstances. It is the happiness and contentment that fills the soul even in the midst of the most distressing of circumstances and the most bitter environment....
00354 – Christianity, not Comfort
I haven’t always been a Christian. I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of port wine would do that. If you want a religion to make you really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.
00299 – Success vs. Happiness
Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
00265 – Morning Wake Up Call
Every morning when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the capacity to live in a way that these twenty-four hour will bring peace, joy, and happiness to ourselves and others.
00245 – Happiness & Gratefulness
In our daily lives, we must make sure that it is not “happiness” that makes us grateful…but “gratefulness” that makes us happy.
00229 – Joy Even When Life is Hard
If happiness is what we feel when we think we’ve got what we want, then joy is what we feel when we discover we already have what we most need. Joy is still present when life is hard. Christ comes for grieving people with broken homes and broken hearts. Christmas is...