"Your Best Life Now"

Jonathan Edwards:

The most direct way that young people can take to spend their youth pleasantly is to walk in the ways of virtue and piety. This may seem very strange, and a great deal paradoxical to many young people, but I hope to make it very evident in the following method:

I would show, first, that spending youth in the practice of religion and virtue is the way to obtain pleasures that are vastly more excellent than are to be found in the way of sin and vanity.

Second, such a course doesn't destroy young people's comfort, or outward enjoyments, but adds to them.

Third, it makes youth the pleasanter in all the circumstances and concerns of it.

(Taken from To the Rising Generation, page 43)

Reason # 1 explained tomorrow....