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“God loves to see his creatures happy; our lawful delight is His; they know not God that think to please Him with making themselves miserable. The idolaters thought it a fit service for Baal to cut and lance themselves; never any holy man looked for thanks from the true God by wronging himself.”

Thinking Knows Men Happiness Cutting Fit Holy Please Creatures Delight Thanks Miserable God Love True God Holy Man

Book:The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Contemplations

Source: The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Contemplations

“When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.”

People Earth Happiness Success Fear Creatures Draws Perseverance Heavenly Surround Black Motivational Black Feminist

Author:Bell Hooks

“There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.”

Men Littles Art Happiness Study Creatures Misery Little Things Great Art Trifles

Book:Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales

Source: Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales

“When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery ... He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift.... There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.”

Knows Want Whole Happiness Understanding Alive Creatures Highest Misery God Love Want Him Best Gift

Author:Thornton Wilder

“There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.”

Feelings Happiness Comfort Creatures Fellows Being Loved Your Presence

Book:The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.”

People World Said Happiness Justice Laughing Creatures Jane

Book:Blaine Josten's Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (Annotated)

Source: Blaine Josten's Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (Annotated)

“I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life. I believe in the equality of humans; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow creatures happy.”

Life Believe Humans Happiness I Believe Religious Justice Principles Duty Creatures Mercy Fellows I Believe In This Life Age Of Reason

Author:Thomas Paine