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“Now, truly there is nothing suitable to the immortal spirit of man but God; and, therefore, all its happiness or misery must be measured by the access or recess, nearness or distance, of that infinite goodness.”—Hugh Binning.

“Labor to attain to this estate of being spiritually convinced of the goodness of God, that we may by experience say, ‘It is good for me to draw near to God,’ . . . the more we are convinced of God’s goodness, the better we are; for God’s goodness, tasted and felt by the soul, does ennoble it, as a pearl set in a gold ring makes it the more rich and precious.”—Richard Sibbs (1577–1635) in “The Saints Happiness.”

“I will always account myself happy in the favor of God, although I should have no earthly thing to give me any satisfaction.”—Dr. Cotton Mather. Resolutions: A Collection of Wisdom.

Thus may the terror of the Lord make a Pharisee; but only the sweet voice of mercy in the gospel, can make a Christian.—William Cowper. Memoir of the Early Life of William Cowper

“When we see and feel that nothing but his favor can make us happy; then we may be sure the Lord is near.”—John Newton, Twenty-One Letters to Elizabeth Catlett.