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“Every single sin we commit, all the way back to Adam and Eve consuming the piece of forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden, is therefore a failure to recognize the glory of God as our true joy, summum bonum, or chief end.”
― Matthew Everhard, Souls: How Jesus Saves Sinners

“Since holiness is the main thing that excites, draws, and governs all gracious affections, it is no wonder that all such affections tend to holiness. That which men love, they desire to have and to be united to, and possessed of. That beauty which men delight in, they desire to be adorned with. Those acts which men delight in, they necessarily incline to do.”
― Jonathan Edwards, The Religious Affections

“credo ut intelligam. (i believe so i can understand).”
― Augustine of Hippo

“They that seek the Lord shall not want [lack] any good thing (Psalm 34:10). If the thing we desire is good for us, we will have it; if it is not good, then the not having is good for us.”
― Thomas Watson, The Art of Divine Contentment: An Exposition of Philippians 4:11 [Updated and Annotated]