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Despair Quotes by Blaise Pascal
- Without the knowledge of our wretchedness, the knowledge of God creates pride. With it, the knowledge of God creates despair. The knowledge of Christ offers…
- Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him is all our…
- Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. It is then that he recognizes…
- There is a virtuous fear, which is the effect of faith; and there is a vicious fear, which is the product of doubt. The former…
- Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.
- When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, and man left to himself with…
- Knowing God without knowing our own wretchedness makes for pride. Knowing our own wretchedness without knowing God makes for despair. Knowing Jesus Christ strikes the…
- The knowledge of God without that of man's misery causes pride. The knowledge of man's misery without that of God causes despair. The knowledge of…
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- He first selected the smallest one...and then bowed his head as though he were saying grace. Opening his mouth very wide, he… — William Makepeace Thackeray
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- My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war-and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and… — Thomas Jefferson
- Here life goes on, even and monotonous on the surface, full of lightning, of summits and of despair, in its depths. We… — May Sarton
- Most satirists are indeed a public scourge; Their mildest physic is a farrier's purge; Their acrid temper turns, as soon as stirr'd,… — William Cowper
- In that one slight motion, I see the end of hope, beginning of destruction of everything I hold dear in the world.… — Suzanne Collins