Quotes about Despair

I have sometimes called this 'double listening'. Listening to the voice of God in Scripture, and listening to the voices of the modern world, with all their cries of anger, pain and despair.

I found it hard work now to pray to God, because despair was swallowing me up

I turned to speak to God About the world's despair But to make bad matters worse I found God wasn't there.

It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of us, even when we are in the greatest despair respecting the results.

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.

The wicked will gnaw their tongues for anguish and pain; they will curse God and look upwards. There the dogs of hell, pride, malice, revenge, rage, horror, despair, continually devout them.

Sin is the despairing refusal to find your deepest identity in your relationship and service to God.

I shall despair when I despair of myself, of God and humanity.

He who loses sight of the word of God, falls into despair; the voice of heaven no longer sustains him; he follows only the disorderly tendency of his heart.