We shall never be abandoned by Heaven while we act worthy of its aid and protection
Samuel AdamsRead
He who made all men hath made the truths necessary to human happiness obvious to all. Our forefathers opened the Bible to all.
Interpretation
Human happiness is based on universal truths that are evident to everyone, and these truths are accessible through the Bible.
In this quote, Samuel Adams emphasizes that the truths essential for human happiness are made clear by the creator and are available to everyone. He highlights the role of the Bible as a guiding source that has been made accessible by our ancestors, suggesting that understanding these truths can lead to a fulfilling life.
In practice
This quote can be used in a sermon to emphasize the importance of the Bible in understanding happiness.
We shall never be abandoned by Heaven while we act worthy of its aid and protection
Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters.
If taxes are laid upon us in any shape without our having a legal representation where they are laid, are we not reduced from the character of free subjects to the miserable state of tributary slaves? We claim British rights not by charter only! We are born to them.
Let no man thirst for good beer.
He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as his power and influence extend, will not suffer a man to be chosen into any office of power and trust who is not a wise and virtuous man.
We boast of our freedom, and we have your example for it. We talk the language we have always heard you speak.
If every person in this room made it a rule that wherever you are, whenever you can, you will try to act a little kinder than is necessary - the world really would be a better place. And if you do this, if you act just a little kinder than is necessary, someone else, somewhere, someday, may recognize in you, in every single one of you, the face of God.
If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.
Happiness comes from spiritual wealth, not material wealth... Happiness comes from giving, not getting. If we try hard to bring happiness to others, we cannot stop it from coming to us also. To get joy, we must give it, and to keep joy, we must scatter it. .
The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not the moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness. Standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon and contemplating your own greatness is pathological. At such moments we are made for a magnificent joy that comes from outside ourselves.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
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