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How I Passionately Sought Happiness and Accidentally Found It
Jennifer Fulwiler: Something Other Than God

Jennifer ​Fulwiler told herself she was happy. Why wouldn't she be? She made good money as a programmer at a hot tech start-up, had just married a guy with a stack of Ivy League degrees, and lived in a twenty-first-floor condo where she could sip sauvignon blanc while watching the sun set behind the hills of Austin.

Raised in a happy, atheist home, Jennifer had the freedom to think for herself and play by her own rules. Yet a creeping darkness followed her all of her life. Finally, one winter night, it drove her to the edge of her balcony, making her ask once and for all why anything mattered. At that moment everything she knew and believed was shattered.

Asking the unflinching questions about life and death, good and evil, led Jennifer to Christianity, the religion she had reviled since she was an awkward, sceptical child growing up in the Bible Belt. Mortified by this turn of events, she hid her quest from everyone except her husband, concealing religious books in… (tovább)

Eredeti megjelenés éve: 2014

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Ignatius Press, San Francisco, 2014
256 oldal · keménytáblás · ISBN: 9781586178826

Enciklopédia 5


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I’d always heard the ticking of the clock that counts down the seconds as we all get closer to death; now I should see its ticking as a countdown to the end of unjust suffering. As an atheist I mourned the fact that nothing good would last; now it was time to accept the fact that good did last, and it would last forever. Only suffering would end.

Jennifer Fulwiler: Something Other Than God How I Passionately Sought Happiness and Accidentally Found It

Kapcsolódó szócikkek: szenvedés
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And the secret to being humble is to be so focused on how you can make other people’s lives better that you don’t care who’s right or wrong.

Jennifer Fulwiler: Something Other Than God How I Passionately Sought Happiness and Accidentally Found It

Kapcsolódó szócikkek: alázatosság
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My experiment of living by the Church’s moral code was going amazingly well. An entire week had passed, and I had not murdered anyone or started a single unjust war. I hadn’t even gossiped (though, truth be told, that one probably had less to do with virtue and more to do with the fact that I didn’t have enough of a social life to hear anything worth gossiping about). So far, the main result of the experiment was that I felt like a pretty great person.

Jennifer Fulwiler: Something Other Than God How I Passionately Sought Happiness and Accidentally Found It

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To know a saint, I’d heard, was to know someone who was so in tune with God that he became a channel of supernatural love.

Jennifer Fulwiler: Something Other Than God How I Passionately Sought Happiness and Accidentally Found It

Kapcsolódó szócikkek: szentség
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“That’s Christianity’s whole message: The more you love, the more you’re going to have to give up—you can’t hold anything back. And that’s going to mean suffering. But it’s also going to mean joy and peace.”
I stared at my hands. “I’ve been doing this Christianity thing for months now, and I think I have less joy and peace than I used to.”
“But are you really putting God first?”
I didn’t answer.
“We might go broke, or have to live with your mom for another decade, or whatever. It probably won’t be easy. But we’ll have peace.”

Jennifer Fulwiler: Something Other Than God How I Passionately Sought Happiness and Accidentally Found It

Kapcsolódó szócikkek: kereszténység · szenvedés · szeretet
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Elaine was turning out to be what some parenting experts called a “high needs” baby, meaning that Joe received a lot of phone calls in which I screamed that I was going to be dead by the time he got home if this child did not stop crying all the time.

Jennifer Fulwiler: Something Other Than God How I Passionately Sought Happiness and Accidentally Found It


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