"Bliss" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... young man passed his arm around her yielding waist. The two lovers gazed at each other's faces in unspeakable bliss. Suddenly ...
— The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales • Bret Harte
... which Algernon had made. "Professional? Work? A vocation? Anything so simple and delightful, and natural as telling stories? Could I do something that would make lots of people happier and better, as Aunt Clara's pictures do, and Mother's work and Father's?" The bliss of the idea was quite too much for her, and she broke away from the ...
— The Wide Awake Girls in Winsted • Katharine Ellis Barrett
... my dear. We will all help you, and so will the Great Father above," said Mrs. Carlton, beckoning Jessie to her side and giving her a kiss so full of a mother's holy love that it sent a thrill of bliss through the happy heart of her child. Thus like a sunbeam did Jessie brighten the life of her parents and her uncle. As she left the room to go to bed, Uncle Morris followed her with his eyes, and when her light form had ...
— Jessie Carlton - The Story of a Girl who Fought with Little Impulse, the - Wizard, and Conquered Him • Francis Forrester
... forward to the final stage of being, to the Beatific Vision of God in the far future and tells us with awe that that God "is of purer eyes than to behold iniquity," that "even the heavens are not clean in His sight;" that into that final abode of bliss "nothing that defileth shall enter in." Which of us, the greatest soul of us all, can look forward to such a prospect without bowing himself in dread like Isaiah of old, "Woe is me for I am undone, for I am a man of unclean lips, that mine eyes should ...
— The Gospel of the Hereafter • J. Paterson-Smyth
... exploration of the Bible lands have made few additions to our knowledge. But in the department of biblical archaeology the work of Drs. Ward, Peters, and Hilprecht in the mounds of Babylonia, and of Mr. Bliss in Palestine, has added not a little to the credit of the American church against the heavy balance which we owe to the ...
— A History of American Christianity • Leonard Woolsey Bacon
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