God is the highest good of the reasonable creature; and the enjoyment of him is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied. To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here. Fathers and mothers, husbands, […]
The excellency of Christ is such, that the discovery of it is exceedingly contenting and satisfying to the soul. The inquiry of the soul is after that which is most excellent. The carnal soul imagines that earthly things are excellent; one thinks riches most excellent, another […]
Never does a soul know what solid joy and substantial pleasure is till, once being weary of itself, it renounces all propriety, gives itself up to the Author of its being, and feels itself become a hallowed and devoted thing; and can say from an inward […]
After millions of years and ages, the felicity of the saints shall be as far from ending, as when their souls were first received into paradise The infinite love of God, the everlasting merit of Christ, and the unchangeableness of the covenant of grace, assures us […]
Seriously determine to find out [experientially] what it is to enjoy God, and to have communion with Him. Long for it, that you shall never lose your longing. Pant after it; God understands the rhetoric of your breathing as well as your cry. “If,” says Augustine, […]