"True morality, then, is that we conform to God’s own design in making him our chief end: holiness consists primarily in love to God, which is exercised in a high esteem of God, admiration of his perfections, complacency in them, and praise of them." (Jonathan Edwards)

--Esther Burr, wife of Aaron Burr; daughter of Jonathan Edwards. She died when she was 26, in the year 1756.
Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the sake of the faith of God’s elect and their knowledge of the truth, which accords with godliness, in hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began (Titus 1:1–2)