Bible Dictionary: Joy: Vanity of Seeking, from Earthly Things

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Torrey's Topical Textbook

Ecclesiastes 2:10,11
And whatever my eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labor: and this was my portion of all my labor.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

Ecclesiastes 11:8
But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.
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Library

True Harvest Joy.
... earthly blessings, and to give to that joy and gratitude ... rebukes the man who is not
seeking after the ... is the question that always brings out the vanity of mere ...
/.../schleiermacher/selected sermons of schleiermacher/xxvii true harvest joy.htm

"And These Things Write we unto You, that Your Joy May be Full. "
... they have done much to discover the vanity and madness ... it is that all men are seeking,
though they ... be a perfunctorious,(237) superficial, and empty joy that is ...
/.../binning/the works of the rev hugh binning/sermon viii and these things.htm

Rejoicing Before God.
... if we are now turning back, and after the old, evil manner, each seeking his own;
each one seeking to gain ... Finally, our joy must be free from all vanity. ...
/.../schleiermacher/selected sermons of schleiermacher/x rejoicing before god.htm

There is a Blessedness in Reversion
... wind (Hosea 12:1) to show their vanity, so to ... up blessedness there must be perfection;
the joy must be ... blessedness to come, and that is by seeking an interest ...
/.../the beatitudes an exposition of matthew 51-12/2 there is a blessedness.htm

First of Conversion
... waste we our life in love of vanity, not without ... not only without heaviness but with
a joy unmeasured he ... might come to God's service, and in seeking they would ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/rolle/the fire of love/chapter i first of conversion.htm

The Dying Saviour Our Example.
... in what was done, then it was vanity, the desire to appear singular; hypocrisy,
seeking to make a ... loved and earnestly carried on, and the joy with which ...
/.../schleiermacher/selected sermons of schleiermacher/ii the dying saviour our.htm

The Christian view of Sorrow
... is sicklied o'er by care; the vanity of earthly ... would but heed them, have a celestial
mission, seeking to draw ... each of us sorrow is mingled with joy in order ...
/.../chapin/the crown of thorns/the christian view of sorrow.htm

Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome.
... It is necessary to restrain the soul from seeking its own ... which is the most contrary
to all vanity and pride. ... heavenly longing, so that it has more joy in the ...
/.../neander/light in the dark places/gregory the great bishop of.htm

Psalm LXII.
... of a calf eating hay, [2405] seeking earthly things: because all ... of heart, wherefore
love ye vanity, and seek a ... great indeed would be the joy: but nevertheless ...
/.../augustine/exposition on the book of psalms/psalm lxii.htm

That Perfect Love Binds to God Without Loosing and Makes Man ...
... has truly and unfeared sought thy soul, and would not cease in seeking until the ...
Beware thou sellest not this joy and honour for foul vanity of fleshly ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/rolle/the fire of love/chapter xi that perfect love.htm