"We now but little consider, in comparison with what we should do, how full the world is of God's goodness, and how it appears in the sun, moon, and stars, and in the earth and seas, with all their fullness, and wheresoever we turn our eyes, and how all ranks and orders of being, from the highest angel to the lowest insect, are dependent upon, and maintained by, the goodness of God. These the saints in heaven clearly see: they see how the universe is replenished with His goodness, and how the communications of His goodness are incessantly issuing from God as from an everflowing fountain, and are poured forth all around in vast profusion into every part of heaven and earth, as light is every moment diffused from the sun. We have but faint, imperfect notions of these things, but the saints in heaven see them with perfect clearness."

"It is the peculiar diginity of the nature of man...that he is made capable of actively glorifying his Creator. Other creatures glorify God: the sun, moon, stars, the earth and waters, all the trees of the field, grass and herbs, and fishes and insects glorify God (Psalm 19:1-6; Job 12:7-8)."

Jonathan Edwards, "Altogether Lovely: Praise One of the Chief Employments of Heaven"