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	Joy

Efrain Alvarado

12-31-2007 7:36 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/fbb1c9fb-bef7-40f1-905d-b41c1febe07c/4BCAD7A2-D987-46F8-ACFC-0DDC671E39CF/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.peterkreeft.com/topics/joy.htm" href="http://www.peterkreeft.com/topics/joy.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.peterkreeft.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.peterkreeft.com/topics/joy.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.peterkreeft.com/img/DF3310A9-0934-4642-8C51-006CD08B8BA9" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.peterkreeft.com/topics/joy.htm">Joy 
    is more than happiness, just as happiness is more than pleasure. Pleasure 
    is in the body. Happiness is in the mind and feelings. Joy is deep in the 
    heart, the spirit, the center of the self.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.peterkreeft.com/topics/joy.htm">The way to pleasure is power and prudence. The way to happiness is moral 
    goodness. The way to joy is sanctity, loving God with your whole heart and 
    your neighbor as yourself.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.peterkreeft.com/topics/joy.htm">Everyone wants pleasure. More deeply, everyone wants happiness. Most deeply, 
    everyone wants joy.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.peterkreeft.com/topics/joy.htm"> St. Thomas Aquinas says, "No 
    man can live without joy. That is why one deprived of spiritual joy goes over 
    to carnal pleasures." </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.peterkreeft.com/topics/joy.htm">It is not a matter of faith alone. It has been proved 
    by experience by many, many people, many, many times. You can repeat the experiment 
    and prove it to yourself. You can be absolutely certain that it is true, just 
    as you can be certain that fire is hot and ice is cold.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.peterkreeft.com/topics/joy.htm">No one who ever said to God, "Thy will be done" and meant it with 
    his heart, ever failed to find joy</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.peterkreeft.com/topics/joy.htm">self-surrender to God there is joy</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/4BCAD7A2-D987-46F8-ACFC-0DDC671E39CF/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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