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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 Christ.

John Howe — John Howe, A Treatise of Delighting in God (Internet Archive atreatisedeligh01howegoog), on the exercise of delighting in God.

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