The Goodness of God

“Labor to attain to this estate of being spiritually convinced of the goodness of God, that we may by experience say, ‘It is good for me to draw near to God,’ . . . the more we are convinced of God’s goodness, the better we are; for God’s goodness, tasted and felt by the soul, does ennoble it, as a pearl set in a gold ring makes it the more rich and precious.”—Richard Sibbes (1577–1635) in “The Saints Happiness.”