All that we call human history--money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery--[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.

C.s. Lewis
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All that we call history--money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery--[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy. This quote by C.S. Lewis is a warning to all of us about the dangers of searching for happiness in material things. We have been told time and again that without money and possessions there is no “happiness” or “fulfillment” or “fulfillment.” The truth is that there is only happiness in God and when we turn from Him to try to find it in any other thing, we end up feeling empty and in despair.

Source: Mere Christianity

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