"If there lurks in most modern minds the notion that to desire our own good and earnestly to hope for the enjoyment of it is a bad thing, i submit that this notion has crept in from Knat and the Stoics and is no part of the Christian faith. Indeed, if we consdier the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that our Lord finds our desires, not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased." C.S. Lewis
-----------------------------------------------------Christ says "Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen dillegently to me, and eat wat is good, and delight yourself in rich food. Incline your ear, and come to me; hear that your soul may live; and i will make you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast sure love for David."
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"God is glorified not only by His glory's being seen, but by its being rejoiced in. When those that see it delight in it, God is more glorified than if they only see it.... He that testifies his idea of God's glory [does not] glorify God so much as he testifies also his approbation of it and his delight in it." Jonathan Edwards
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