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Despair has been called the unforgivable sin-not presumably because God refuses to forgive it, but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven.

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Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge…
The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party…
It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate…
Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to…
Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom, the good thief said from his cross (Luke 23:42). There are perhaps no…
When someone we love suffers, we suffer with that person, and we would not have it otherwise, because the suffering and the…
We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old.
Despair has been called the unforgivable sin-not presumably because God refuses to forgive it, but because it despairs of the possibility of…
In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.
True faith, a simple life, a helping hand- the three things prized most in Heaven.
You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the…
We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old. This seems…

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He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool. — Albert Camus
Everyone becomes brave when he observes one who despairs. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Despair has been called the unforgivable sin-not presumably because God refuses to forgive it, but because it despairs of the possibility of… — Frederick Buechner
The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down; aspires and not despairs. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
To understand is nothing, but to be understood-that is the problem and the source of anguish. The soul throbs and would have… — Andre Gide
Take a journey into the things which you are carrying, the known- not into the unknown-into what you already know: your pleasures,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
He who gives back at the first repulse and without striking the second blow, despairs of success has never been, is not,… — Frederic Tudor
I know nothing more mocking than a devil that despairs. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Our life is always deeper than we know, is always more divine than it seems, and hence we are able to survive… — William James
An individual in despair despairs over something. . . . In despairing over something, he really despair[s] over himself, and now he… — Soren Kierkegaard
As for hobbies, people with stimulating hobbies suffer from the most noxious of despairs since they are tranquilized in their despair. — Walker Percy
In the United States, there is no end which human will despairs of attaining through the combined power of individuals united in… — Alexis de Tocqueville

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