But because order would have it that every righteous person should be happy and every sinner miserable, that every action conforming to order or every impulse of love toward God should be rewarded, and that every action contrary to order or every impulse of love not tending toward God should be punished, it is clear that every man wishing to be happy must unceasingly strive after God and must recoil from every obstacle in his path or anything that diminishes his impulse toward his true good.