Biblical Despair Quotes & Sayings

Solitude must be accepted with all its difficulties. — Albert Camus

But everything wrong with her is everything that draws me in and makes her perfect. She's flat-out rude to me and I love it. She's stubborn and I love it. — Colleen Hoover

I like Rhine wine, blue grapes, good cheese, endive and lots of books, etc., etc., etc., as much as I like supreme fiction. — Wallace Stevens

I didn't learn fire-eating to conquer my fears. I learned fire-eating because I desperately wanted to be in show business. — Penn Jillette

Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate. — Soren Kierkegaard

To refer to the Church as a building is to call people 2 x 4's. — Shane Claiborne

My encounter with desperation while witnessing the death of a precious child changed me, teaching me that although we will have sad times, we can move on, chastened and changed but resilient and hopeful. Laurel showed me one way to live with hope as well as cancer as she thrived even when tumors grew within her small body. She exhibited how a child can push aside despair and appreciate as many moments as possible, to believe in the power of resurrection, both the human spirit and in a Biblical sense. — Brent Green

That the language of the poetry of Jamaican music is rastafarian or biblical language cannot simply be put down to the colonizer and his satanic missionaries. The fact is that the historical experience of the black Jamaican is an experience of the most acute human suffering, desolation and despair in the cruel world that is the colonial world ... — Linton Kwesi Johnson

Right view is not a concept or belief. ... [It] is simply seeing Reality as it is, here and now, moment after moment[;] ... relying on bare attention ... before conceptual thought arises[;] ... relying on what we actually experience rather than on what we think. — Steve Hagen

You know Me in you, and from this knowledge you will derive all that is necessary. — St. Catherine Of Siena

The mass of the people commence life with no other capital than the union of head, hearts and hands. To the benefit of this best of capital the wife has no right. — Ernestine Rose