“To pretend to describe the excellence, the greatness or duration of the happiness of heaven by the most artful composition of words would be but to darken and cloud it; to talk of raptures and ecstasies, joy and singing, is but to set it forth very low.”

--Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758), American preacher, theologian, and president of Princeton University. He is perhaps best known for his sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."