Study Recap: Our Search for Happiness by James E. Faust

Title: Our Search for Happiness
Author: James E. Faust
Source: devotional address was given at BYU on 14 September 1999
Link: http://speeches.byu.edu/?act=viewitem&id=347&tid=7 
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Favorite Points

• The more faithfully we keep the commandments of God, the happier we will be. 
• Pleasure is often confused with happiness but is by no means synonymous with it.
• Pleasure, unlike happiness, is that which pleases us or gives us gratification. Usually it endures for only a short time. As President McKay once said, “You may get that transitory pleasure, yes, but you cannot find joy, you cannot find happiness. Happiness is found only along that well beaten track, narrow as it is, though straight, which leads to life eternal” (CR, October 1919, 180).
• The Savior of the world taught us to seek that inner peace which taps the innate happiness in our souls. He said, “My peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid” (John 14:27)
• That inner peace spoken of by the Savior seems elusive when we are preoccupied with things we have or things we wish we had. 
• I would desire that ye should consider on the blessed and happy state of those that keep the commandments of God. For behold, they are blessed in all things, both temporal and spiritual; and if they hold out faithful to the end they are received into heaven, that thereby they may dwell with God in a state of never-ending happiness. [Mosiah 2:41]
• Henrik Ibsen reminded us, “Money may buy the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings food, but not the appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.