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  • Fully Happy

    Contributed by Paul Green on Jul 20, 2009
     | 1,546 views

    Robbie Williams: "I don’t think anyone can ever be fully happy. If you’re fully happy then you’re a miserable person, because the grass is always greener on the other side--it has to be. I’m not saying I’m miserable--in fact I’m the happiest I’ve been for a long time, but I’m no happier than I ...read more

  • Not Happy With The View

    Contributed by Bill Love on Jul 29, 2009
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     | 3,378 views

    NOT HAPPY WITH THE VIEW A young salesman lands a job selling new windows door to door. On his first day of the job he comes across this sweet older lady who agrees to purchase a beautiful new window in her living room. A few days after the job was completed the salesmen gets a call from the lady ...read more

  • Happiness Is The Lord

    Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Dec 12, 2010
     | 2,443 views

    "HAPPINESS IS THE LORD" Ira F. Stanphill was born in Belview, New Mexico, in 1914. He has written more than 550 songs, the most popular of which are "Mansion over the Hilltop," "Room at the Cross," and, of course, "Happiness Is the Lord." On any number of occasions the Lord has given a song to a ...read more

  • Holiness And Happiness  PRO

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Mar 14, 2011
    based on 3 ratings
     | 4,486 views

    HOLINESS AND HAPPINESS Quote taken from an article "9 Points for Preaching on the Problem of Evil" by Norman L. Geisler, a distinguished professor of apologetics at Veritas Evangelical Seminary in Murrieta, California: "The stark truth is that God is more interested in our holiness than in our ...read more

  • The Key To Happiness...?

    Contributed by Josh Hunt on Feb 7, 2012
     | 1,863 views

    THE KEY TO HAPPINESS...? Want to be happy? A 26-year study of Germans suggests it’s not that hard: • Marry someone who’s not neurotic. • Focus more on friends and family, less on material goods. • Get involved in making the world a better place. • Have a job but also enough time for ...read more

  • Happy Families

    Contributed by Isaac Butterworth on Feb 11, 2012
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    HAPPY FAMILIES Leo Tolstoy opened his novel, Anna Karenina with this line: "Happy families," he said, "are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." I don’t know if that’s entirely true, but, of course, ...read more

  • The Happiness Of Heaven

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 7, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,452 views

    THE HAPPINESS OF HEAVEN In 1871 Fr. J. Boudreau wrote a short story entitled "The Happiness of Heaven." It's a story about a kindhearted king who is hunting in the forest when he discovers a blind, poor orphan boy living there. The king takes the blind orphan to his palace and adopts him as his ...read more

  • Pursuit Of Happiness

    Contributed by Larry Hinkle on Dec 12, 2019
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     | 4,338 views

    A disgruntled early American once complained to Ben Franklin, “so where is all this happiness that the Constitution was supposed to guarantee me?” Franklin is said to have responded, “The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it ...read more

  • The Happy Meal

    Contributed by Dr. Fred W. Penney on Sep 19, 2020
     | 1,798 views

    The McDonalds “Happy Meal” might be the most famous meal in all the world. It's a meal for a kid that’s served at McDonalds restaurants that promises to make them happy – at least for a few fleeting minutes! In the mid-1970s, a MacDonald’s restaurant in Guatemala offered a hamburger, small ...read more

  • Happiness... Or Holiness?  PRO

    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 11, 2008
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     | 3,731 views

    Happiness... or Holiness? We Christians have sometimes made a mistake when leading others to Christ in allowing (or encouraging) them to believe that, once they are born-again children of God, there will no longer be any trials in their lives. This may be especially true when they come to ...read more

  • Happiness And Religion

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 16, 2009
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    HAPPINESS AND RELIGION 45% of people who consider themselves very religious consider themselves very happy. Just 28% of people who consider themselves not religious also consider themselves very happy. 29% of people ...read more

  • Happiness Consists In Being Happy With What We ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
     | 414 views

    Happiness consists in being happy with what we have got and ...read more

  • If You Went To The Doctor For A Surgery And He ...

    Contributed by Brien Sims on Dec 13, 2007
     | 2,571 views

    If you went to the doctor for a surgery and he told you that he wouldn’t be wearing sterile gloves, wouldn’t be sterilizing any of the equipment he had used for the last operation, and gave you a 1 in 3 chance of contracting a disease, you would probably leave in a heartbeat. Today, sterilization ...read more

  • Denmark Is The Happiest Country In The World, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2009
     | 1,705 views

    Denmark is the happiest country in the world, while the U.S. languishes as 23rd happiest, says an English ...read more

  • Three Phases To An Enjoyable Life

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Apr 27, 2009
     | 1,851 views

    THREE PHASES TO AN ENJOYABLE LIFE When I was a boy, I would watch the space launches on TV. The rockets were in three phases. As it got so high, the lowest section of the rocket would drop off. Then the second section would drop off until only the capsule would remain. It took all three sections ...read more

  • John Ortberg Said He Recently Saw An Actual, ...

    Contributed by Sean Harder on Jun 25, 2009
     | 1,981 views

    John Ortberg said He recently saw an actual, academic, peer-reviewed journal called Journal of Happiness Studies. "Positive psychology" is the big new trend looking for how people can be happy. One theme that keeps cropping up is the happiness paradox which says: "the more directly one aims to ...read more

  • Contentment Myth

    Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Dec 15, 2009
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    CONTENTMENT MYTH Charles Spurgeon said, "You say, ‘If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.’ You make a mistake. If you are not content with what ...read more

  • Myths And Truths Of Happiness

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jan 5, 2010
     | 2,213 views

    MYTHS AND TRUTHS OF HAPPINESS In David G. Myers book The Pursuit Of Happiness (1993), he addresses the truth about what genuinely brings happiness and contentment to people’s lives. In his epilogue after going through many studies, he sums up his findings: By scrutinizing the fruits of hundreds ...read more

  • Parenting "To Make My Child Happy"

    Contributed by Kerry O'neill on Mar 12, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,036 views

    PARENTING "TO MAKE MY CHILD HAPPY" Several years ago, I was part of a great church in Omaha, Nebraska that ran a Christian school. When the parents of the students were surveyed and asked "What is your main role as a parent to your child?" the number one response was "To make my child happpy." ...read more

  • All He Ever Wanted Was More. He Wanted More ...

    Contributed by Derrick Tuper on May 8, 2010
     | 1,522 views

    All he ever wanted was more. He wanted more money so he turned inherited wealth into a billion dollars worth of assets. He wanted more fame so he broke into the Hollywood scene and soon became a film producer and star. He wanted more thrills so he designed, built and piloted the fastest airplane in ...read more