John Howe

Spiritual joy is a severe thing, separated from vain and unbecoming levities as well as from all earthly impurities, and only grows and flourishes in a soul that is dead to this world, and alive to God through Jesus Chri…

And of all this, his own self-sufficient fulness leaves it impossible for us to imagine any other reason than the delight he takes in dispensing his own free and large communications.

That which we are to understand ourselves called to under the name of delighting in God is the keeping of our souls open to divine influences and communications: thirsting after them, praying, and waiting for them; endea…