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I planned on reading more. But this guy is just so dense that I just couldn't. I read for an hour and a half and got through like 5 pages. But, its paying off. This has some of the most heart stirring musings.

"This propensity in God to diffuse himself may be considered as a propensity to himself diffused, or to his own glory existing in its emanation." (155).

Definitely have to pray and meditate on this.

“When God is so often spoken of as the Last as well as the First, the End as well as the Beginning, it is implied that as He is the first, efficient Cause and Fountain from whence all things originate; so, He is the last, final Cause for which they are made; the final Term to which they all tend in their ultimate issue.” -Pg 184

I rly haven’t learned anything new lol. John Piper has already explained all of this in wayyyyyyy easier to understand language.

I skimmed lol. I’ve learned all this stuff from John Piper ngl

I decided to fight through it slowly but surely. Wish me luck 🫡

Read the intro to the Jonathan Edwards part of the book (lol thats a lie I skipped it and then read one page) and it’s boring and hard to understand so I’m good ima procrastinate this one/not read it until I’m smarter/older/more boring so I care 😝

“Mere self-love savors the gifts of God without savoring fellowship with God Himself.” -Pg 110

“…self-love is confined and narrow and selfish—and not virtuous—until it embraces or delights in the good of the whole universe or being, or more simply, until it embraces God.” -Pg 108

“…if what makes a person happy is the extension of his joy in God into the lives of others, then it is not wrong to seek that happiness, because it magnifies God and blesses people.” -Pg 91

“So saving grace…is God’s giving us a sovereign joy in God that triumphs over all other joys and therefore sways the will.” -Pg 87

“Pursuing delight in God is not something one may do halfheartedly, if he realizes who he is pursuing and what is at stake.” -Pg 81

“God is glorified most not merely by being known, nor by merely being dutifully obeyed, but by being enjoyed in the knowing and the obeying.” -Pg 75

“…to see reality in truth we must see it in relation to God, who created it, and sustains it…” -Pg 44

“Genuine affections for God are an end in themselves.” -Pg 42

“…Christian preaching, as part of the corporate worship of Christ’s church, is an expository exultation over the glories of God in His word, designed to lure God’s people from the fleeting pleasures of sin into the sacrificial path of obedient satisfaction in Him.” -Pg 39

“…evangelism means depicting the beauty of Christ and His saving work with a heartfelt urgency of love that labors to help people find their satisfaction in Him.” -Pg 39

“…if God’s glory is the only all-satisfying reality in the universe, then to try to do good for people, without aiming to show them the glory of God and ignite in them a delight in God, would be like treating fever with cold packs when you have penicillin.” -Pg 36

“The love of God for sinners is not His making much of them, but His graciously freeing and empowering them to enjoy making much of Him.” -Pg 34-35

“God’s gift of understanding is through thinking, not instead of thinking.” -Pg 29

“Evangelical Christians, who believe God reveals Himself primarily through a book, the Bible, should long to be the most able readers they can be.”
-Pg 29

“…we have scarcely begun to see all of God that the Scriptures give us to see, and what we have not yet seen is exceedingly glorious.” -Pg xii, paraphrasing Jonathan Edwards