Notes

2. Randy Alcorn, Happiness (Downer’s Grove, IL: Tyndale Publishers, 2015), 19.

3. Tremper Longman III, How to Read the Psalms (Downer’s Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 1988), 45.

4. Spiro Zodhiates, ed., Hebrew-Greek Key Word Study Bible (Chattanooga, TN: AMG, 1996), 627, 1911.

5. Strong’s Concordance Greek #3107: mákarios, “happy”; https://biblehub.com/greek/3107.htm.

6. Sonja Lyubomirsky, The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want (New York: Penguin Books, 2007), 20–23.

7. C. S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain (New York: HarperOne, 1940), 92.

8. Lesslie Newbigin, The Gospel in a Pluralistic Society (London: SPCK, 1989), 227.

9. Henri Nouwen, The Wounded Healer (New York: Doubleday, 1971), 66.

10. Charles Spurgeon, The New Park Street Pulpit: The Immutability of God (delivered on January 7, 1855 at New Park Street Chapel, Southwark, UK).

11. Elie Wiesel (the author of “Night” and winner of the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize) as quoted in 1986 an interview with U.S. News & World Report magazine.

12. Tim Keller, King’s Cross (New York: Dutton, 2011), 86.

13. C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1952), 60.

14. Donald Spoto, Reluctant Saint (New York: Penguin, 2003).

15. Marcus Braybrooke, Beacons of the Light: 100 Holy People Who Have Shaped the History of Humanity (New Alresford, UK: John Hunt Publishing, 2009), 287.

16. C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1960), 155.

17. Timothy Keller, Counterfeit Gods (New York: Penguin Books, 2011), 3.

18. Edward T. Welch, Addictions: A Banquet in the Grave (Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing House, 2001), xvi.

19. Arnold Dallimore, Spurgeon: A New Biography (Edinburgh, UK: Banner of Truth, 1987), 186.