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I found this quote from Lewis interesting. Is there a way to search in Logos (maybe using AI) to search for authors who have said similar things.

If so, it would indeed be true that the joys of Heaven are for most of us, in our present condition, ‘an acquired taste’

C. S. Lewis, A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works, ed. Patricia S. Klein, 1st ed. (New York: HarperOne, 2003), 75.

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Justin Gatlin

This is a good use case for Study Assistant. I started with, "Find quotes conceptually similar to, "the joys of heaven are an acquired taste."" And followed followed up with, "Those are good, but go beyond the metaphor of taste to find other metaphors or direct teaching about learning to appreciate spiritual or heavenly pleasures over time."

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1394510#Comment_1394510

One will always be chasing the ball on this type of query:-

> Find quotes that relate to "the joys of heaven"

Here are quotes relating to “the joys of heaven” from the search results:

On the Incomprehensibility of Heaven’s Joys:

“Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man what things God hath prepared for them that love him.”[1] (1 Corinthians 2:9)

A saint in ecstasy declared: “I should commit a great fault if I attempted to describe what I have seen, for human words cannot express the value and beauty of the treasures of heaven.”[1]

On the Nature of Heavenly Joy:

“God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes: and death shall be no more, nor mourning, nor crying, nor sorrow, shall be any more, for the former things are passed away.”[1] (Revelation 21:4)

“How lovely are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts!”[1]

The “beatific vision”—the “infinite and unutterable joy which shall arise from the pure and direct perception of the most Holy Trinity”—represents the Holy Trinity as “the perfect archetype and ultimate epitome of all that is beautiful, all that is good, and all that is delightful.”[2]

On Heavenly Joy as Eternal and Undiminished:

The joys of heaven “never surfeit; a drop of joy is sweet, but the more of this wine the better; such as drink of the joys of heaven are never cloyed; the satiety is without loathing.”[3]

“If God gives His people such joy in this life; O then, what glorious joy will He give them in heaven! ‘Enter thou into the joy of thy lord.’”[3] (Matthew 25:21)

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> Find quotes that include "the joys of heaven"

Here are quotes that include the phrase “the joys of heaven”:

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—> the first query was close but the second did not provide quotes!