--JOY /- HAPPINESS ~~

--'In our age, as in every age, people are longing for happiness, not realizing that what they are looking for is holiness.'

--Jerry L. Walls
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-'The World and the Cross do not get along too well together, and comfort and holiness do not share the same room.'

--Carlo Carretto
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'The comedy film 'Cool Runnings' is about the first Jamaican bobsled team to go to the Olympics. John Candy plays a former American gold medalist who becomes a coach to the Jamaican team. The players grow to like the American coach and affectionately dub him "Sled-god."

Later in the story, the coach's dark history comes out. In an Olympics following his gold medal performance, he broke the rules by weighting the U.S. sled, bringing disgrace on himself and his team.

One of the Jamaican bobsledders could not understand why anyone who had already won a gold medal would cheat. Finally he nervously asked the coach to explain.

"I had to win," he said. "I learned something. If you are not happy without a gold medal, you won't be happy with it."

--Randall Bergsma