“The formula to joy is not God and [blank] so much as God in [blank]” (77). Later he explains, “True joy derives not from God and job, family, sex, friends, food, rest, driving, buying a home, reading a book, drinking coffee — but from God in these things. . . . Every taste of beauty in this world, from the roar of waterfalls to the chatter of birds to the richness of true friendship to the ecstasy of sexual experience, is a drop from the ocean of divine beauty. Every pleasure is an arrow pointing back to him. Joy is from, and only finally in, God” (79).
Edwards on the Christian Life: Alive to the Beauty of God by Dane Ortlund
Found this quote in this blogpost: http://www.desiringgod.org/articles/god-s-beauty-for-the-bored-busy-and-depressed
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