Quote by Jonathan Edwards
The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by whi

The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted. – Jonathan Edwards

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The way to Heaven is ascending we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh. – Jonathan Edwards

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Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious. – Jonathan Edwards

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Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will. – Jonathan Edwards

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For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want. – Ferdinand Mount

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True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. – Helen Keller

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It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more. – Herman Hesse

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My life has run from misery to happiness. – Loretta Lynn

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