# “The happiness we are to seek is from above” by John Calvin

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- Published: 2008-02-16T00:41:11-06:00
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“The happiness we are to seek is from above. While we are on earth, we must prepare
to do battle. But there is also the promise of rest which will be ours, of victory
and the glory which goes with it. That promise calls us to look away from the world
and to lift our minds to the realm above.”

–John Calvin, _[Sermons on the Beatitudes](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0851519342?tag=toletaupanre-20)_,
trans. by Robert White (Carlisle, PA.: Banner of Truth, 1562/2006), p. 66.

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