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Topical Guide, "Happiness, Happy," "Joy"; Alma 41:10.

Claudio R. M. Costa, "Fun and Happiness," Liahona or Ensign, Nov. 2002, 92–94.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf, "Your Happily Ever After," Liahona or Ensign, May 2010, 124–27.

James E. Faust, "Our Search for Happiness," Liahona, Oct. 2000, 2–8; or Ensign, Oct. 2000, 2–6.

Joseph B. Wirthlin, "Come What May, and Love It," Liahona or Ensign, Nov. 2008, 26–28.

Richard G. Scott, "Finding Joy in Life," Ensign, May 1996, 24–26.

Richard G. Scott, "How to Live Well amid Increasing Evil," Liahona or Ensign, May 2004, 100–102.

Thomas S. Monson, "Happiness—the Universal Quest," Liahona, Mar. 1996, 2–8; or Ensign, Oct. 1993, 2–7.

During the Last Supper Jesus told His Apostles, "In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world" (John 16:33).

Obedience to God is not insurance against pain and sadness. Challenges have always been included in God's great plan to test our faith and to help us grow in humility and compassion.

Left: Christ and the Palsied Man, by © J. Kirk Richards; above right, detail from The Last Supper, by Carl Heinrich Bloch, used by permission of the National Historic Museum at Frederiksborg in Hillerød, Denmark

Detail from Master, I Have Brought unto Thee My Son, by Walter Rane; above, right: photograph by David Stoker, posed by models

Photograph by Welden C. Andersen

Notes

 

1.

Neal A. Maxwell, But a Few Days (1983), 4.

 

2.

Maxwell, 4.

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