'Holiness is the most beautiful, lovely thing. Men are apt to drink in strange notions of holiness from their childhood as if it were a melancholy, morose, and unpleasant thing: but there is nothing in it but what is sweet and ravishingly lovely. 'Tis the highest beauty and amiableness, vastly above all beauties; 'tis a divine beauty, makes the soul heavenly and far purer than anything here on earth - this world is like mire and filth and defilement compared to that soul which is sanctified - 'tis of a sweet, lovely, delightful, serene, calm, and still nature.'
Jonathan Edwards in Dane Ortlund, Edwards on the Christian Life, p.144.
