I'm reading a book right now called 'The Lost Art of True Beauty' written by Leslie Ludy. I've only reached the second chapter, but a quote a few pages in captured my attention. It reads:
'They say there is a young lady in New Haven who is beloved of that Great Being who made and rules the world. They say that He fills her mind with exceeding sweet delight, and that she hardly cares for anything except to meditate on Him.
'They say there is a young lady in New Haven who is beloved of that Great Being who made and rules the world. They say that He fills her mind with exceeding sweet delight, and that she hardly cares for anything except to meditate on Him.
If you present all the world to her, with the riches of its treasures, she disregards it. She is unmindful of any pain or affliction. She has a singular purity in her affections.
You could not persuade her to compromise her true Love even if you would give her all the world. She possesses a wonderful sweetness, calmness, and kindness to those around her. She will sometimes go about from place to place, singing sweetly.
She seems to be always full of joy and pleasure, and no one knows exactly why. She loves to be alone, walking in the fields and groves, and seems to have Someone invisible always conversing with her.'
~ Written about Sarah Edwards, by her future husband, Jonathan Edwards.
Oh, let us aspire to this, fellow sisters in Christ! To be completely and utterly His...to live always in sweet fellowship with Him, so that everything we do is the outpouring of our love for Him, the window through which the world sees who our Jesus truly is.
~ Written about Sarah Edwards, by her future husband, Jonathan Edwards.
Oh, let us aspire to this, fellow sisters in Christ! To be completely and utterly His...to live always in sweet fellowship with Him, so that everything we do is the outpouring of our love for Him, the window through which the world sees who our Jesus truly is.
