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Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 40 views
Do you want to conquer envy and covetousness? According to a study from Denmark’s Happiness Research Institute, maybe you could give up Facebook. The study found that people who gave up Facebook for just one week reported suffering less envy and being “more satisfied with their lives” than those who…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 5 views
What does it mean to be “happy?” Many have tried to define it. For instance: Gandhi said: Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. Ayn Rand said: Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values. Robert Ingersoll, the…
Robert Phillips • Illustration • • 5 views
USA Weekend recently polled Americans to determine who is happy and why. The results were surprising. Two in three adults rated their happiness at 8 or higher on a 1-10 scale.The poll and subsequent interviews revealed the following reasons people give for being happy. • Younger isn't better. Most people…
Jonathan L Mobey • Illustration • • 21 views
"All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to war, and of others avoiding it, is the same desire in both, attended with different views. This is the motive of every action of every man, even of those who…
Brad Shockley • Illustration • • 13 views
Lewis was once asked to identify which religion would bring the greatest amount of happiness. In the midst of his reply—he said self-worship (while it lasts) will probably always make the most people happy—Lewis added this little note: "I didn't go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle…
Jerrie W. Barber • Illustration • • 2 views
Making the right choice may sometimes involve some pain. However, if the pleasure principle is the main guiding principle of one’s life, then if one’s spouse does not bring one pleasure, discard him or her for on who does. This teaching, of course, wreaks havoc upon society’s most basic institution,…
Jerrie W. Barber • Illustration • • 2 views
Can love really last a lifetime? Absolutely – but only if you chuck the fairy tale of living happily ever after. A team of scientists recently found that romantic love involves chemical changes in the brain that last 12 to 18 months. After that, you and your partner are on your own. Relationships require…
Tim Campbell • Illustration • • 18 views
According to a recent study by the World Health Organization and Harvard Medical School, America may very well be the saddest nation in the world. Researchers found that 9.6 percent of Americans suffer from depression or bipolar disorder—the highest among 14 major nations polled. Those nations that scored…
Jerrie W. Barber • Illustration • • 1 view
In consumer Christianity, however, church leaders function as religious baristas, supplying spiritual goods for people to choose from based on their preferences. Our concern becomes not whether people are growing, but whether they are satisfied. An unhappy member, like an unhappy customer, will find…
Jarred Edgecombe • Illustration • • 28 views
"God chooses what we go through. We choose how we go through it."---- "The one thing you cannot take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me." ---Viktor Frankl "Everytime you make a choice you are turning the control part of you, the part that chooses, into something a little…
Travis Johnson • Illustration • • 76 views
The happiest people surround themselves with family and friends, don't care about keeping up with the Joneses next door, lose themselves in daily activities and, most important, forgive easily. "Materialism is toxic for happiness," says University of Illinois psychologist Ed Diener. Even rich materialists…
Jarred Edgecombe • Illustration • • 7 views
The one who prays for holiness will one day praise for happiness. – C.H. Spurgeon
Tim Campbell • Illustration • • 219 views
Lee Strobel Impressed by Impoverished Family's Example While working as a journalist for the Chicago Tribune, Lee Strobel was assigned to report on the struggles of an impoverished, inner-city family during the weeks leading up to Christmas. A devout atheist at the time, Strobel was mildly surprised…
Stephen N. Rummage • Illustration • • 3 views
Finding one of her students making faces at others on the playground, Miss Smith stopped to gently reprove the child. Smiling sweetly, the teacher said, "Bobby, when I was a child, I was told if I made ugly faces, it would freeze and I would stay like that." Bobby looked up and innocently replied, "Well,…
Nathan Parker • Illustration • • 72 views
Unknown Author These are more effective than 911 When - You are sad, phone John 14 You have sinned, phone Psalm 51 You are facing danger, phone Psalm 91 People have failed you, phone Psalm 27 It feels as though God is far from you, phone Psalm 139 Your faith needs stimulation, phone Hebrews 11 You are…
Illustration • • 90 views
Monsters, Inc. is a movie about a monster world that is fueled by fear, literally. The company motto is "We scare because we care." Each day, Mike, Sully, and the other monsters line up on the shop floor as a machine carries dozens of closet doors to individual scaring stations. A scream collection canister…
John Leffler • Illustration • • 4 views
According to a recent study by the World Health Organization and Harvard Medical School, America may very well be the saddest nation in the world. Researchers found that 9.6% of Americans suffer from depression or bipolar disorder—the highest among 14 major nations polled. Those nations that scored better…
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I Wish You Enough Speaker Bob Perks was at an airport when he 'overheard a father and daughter in their last moments together. They had announced her departure and standing near the security gate, they hugged and he said, "I love you. I wish you enough." She in turn said, "Daddy, our life together has…
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I believe that the real difference in the American church is not between conservatives and liberals, fundamentalists and charismatics, nor between Republicans and Democrats. The real difference is between the aware and the unaware. When somebody is aware of that love—the same love that the Father has…