Ambrose Bierce Quotes, Joy Quotes, Atheism Quotes

In theology, the state of a luckless mortal prenatally damned. The doctrine of reprobation was taught by Calvin, whose joy in it was somewhat marred by the sad sincerity of his conviction that although some are foredoomed to perdition, others are predestined to salvation.

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For here, I hope, begins our lasting joy.

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Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love.

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Serving throughout the world is a great missionary force going about doing good. Missionaries teach truth. They dispel darkness. They spread joy. They bring precious souls to Christ.

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Yes, all my illusions will burn into illumination of joy, and all my desires ripen into fruits of love.

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Where others see but the dawn coming over the hill, I see the soul of God shouting for joy.

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There is, of course, no joy so great as the cessation of pain; in fact all joy, active or passive, is the cessation of some pain, since it must be the satisfaction of a longing, even perhaps an unconscious longing.

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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.

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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.

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To have joy, one must share it.

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Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.

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Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.

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But that had been grief--this was joy. Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were loopholes, as it were, in that ordinary life through which there came glimpses of something sublime. And in the contemplation of this sublime something the soul was exalted to inconceivable heights of which it had before had no conception, while reason lagged behind, unable to keep up with it.

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The ideal man takes joy in doing favors for others.

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How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?

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To call a thing good not a day longer than it appears to us good, and above all not a day earlier - that is the only way to keep joy pure.

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Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what he suffered and why he now reposes in joy.

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He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy. [for without sorrow how would you know what joy is? Contrast provides peceptive clarity]

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Each present joy or sorrow seems the chief.

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Why, then, if expensive things cannot bring us remarkable joy, are we so powerfully drawn to them?

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