God is the highest good — good as nothing else is but Himself. He is intrinsically happy; in fact, all good and all true happiness are to be found only in God, since they are essential to his nature. No one can be happy or experience any goodness unless God communicates His own glad goodness, and nothing pleases unless it is a vehicle for God. God is the only good worth wanting; nothing without Him is worthy of our hearts. Sound thinking about God grips our emotions, and those people who possess a share of God are happier, for God alone can, all by Himself, put the soul into a more blessed, comfortable, and happy state than can the whole world, more, in fact, than if all the created happiness of all the angels of heaven lived in one person’s heart. I cannot think what more to say. I am overwhelmed. The life, the glory, the blessedness, the soul-satisfying goodness that is in God, are beyond all expression.
– John Bunyan, The Riches of Bunyan (p. 23)
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