"The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted."
― Jonathan Edwards
Topic(s):
Happiness
More From Jonathan Edwards
- "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."
- "Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life."
- "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."
More In Happiness
- "Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man’s hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them."― Don Marquis
- "One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex."― Margaret Thatcher
- "The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods."― Thorstein Veblen