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71. "The Scotch catechism says that man's chief end is 'to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.' But we shall then know that these are the same thing. Fully to enjoy is to glorify. In commanding us to glorify Him, God is inviting us to enjoy Him."
72. "The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from the pure will to obey, in the absence, or in the teeth, of inclination".
73. "God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world".
74. "When you are arguing against Him, you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all."
75. "He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other."
76. "The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us; just as the roof of a sunhouse does not attract the sun because it is bright, but becomes bright because the son shines on it."
77. "Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing yet had been done."
78. "Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods."
