The process of growing up is to be valued for what we gain, not for what we lose.
The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God." ~ Mere Christianity, By C. S. Lewis
We were made not primarily that we may love God, but that God may love us.
The Scotch catechism says that man's chief end is 'to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.' But we shall then know that these are the same thing. Fully to enjoy is to glorify. In commanding us to glorify Him, God is inviting us to enjoy Him.
The absent are easily refuted.
I begin to suspect that the world is divided not only into the happy and the unhappy, but into those who like happiness and those who, odd as it seems, really don't.