Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
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Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind words, by their power of producing happiness, have also a power of producing holiness, and so of winning men to God.
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.
I'm a holy man minus the holiness.
This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.
Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.
When Jesus comes to live in our hearts, the seed of holiness is planted.
Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
Religious people are happier.
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