“It is, often, in the utter despair of humanness that we become willing to consider deeply spiritual answers. Although the door and… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
When people use the word hell, what do they mean? They mean a place, an event, a situation absent of how God… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Finally, the lessons of impermanence taught me this: loss constitutes an odd kind of fullness; despair empties out into an unquenchable appetite… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
I want to make portraits and images. I don't know how. Out of despair, I just use paint anyway. Suddenly the things… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“With the need for the self in the time of another / I left my seaport grim and dear / knowing good… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and… — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
One of the best safeguards of our hopes, I have suggested, is to be able to mark off the areas of hopelessness… — William F. Lynch Copy Share Image
On the other hand, with a sense of the sacred, one grows in understanding and truth. The Holy Spirit becomes his frequent… — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
Let us never lose courage or despair of God's mercy. We have only to humble ourselves before God in order to obtain… — Rose Philippine Duchesne Copy Share Image
Every time we find a sense of hope, worse things happen that cause us to slide into despair again. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The greatest faith is born in the hour of despair. When we can see no hope and no way out, then faith… — Lee Roberson Copy Share Image
Tomorrow--there's no day so fair, It knows no sorrow; A day that banishes despair, Joy rules tomorrow. — Edgar Guest Copy Share Image
Youth is the season of tragedy and despair. Youth is the time when one's whole life is entangled in a web of… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a person deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something. — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
Humor is not the opposite of seriousness. Humor is the opposite of despair. — Conrad Hyers Copy Share Image
Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair... — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
For fifty years now, we have tried big government. Yet too many people remain trapped in despair. Now, we must try a… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
“What is particularly striking about his reconstruction and criticisms of the traditional account of friendship is that he finds it deficient not… — Graham Smith Copy Share Image
“There is something sustaining in the very agitation that accompanies the first shocks of trouble, just as an acute pain is often… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
