“It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of us, even when we are in the greatest despair respecting the results”
John Calvin
“Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.”
Benjamin Franklin
“What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.”
Eleanor Powell
“Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.”
Eugene Ionesco
“The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.”
Henri Nouwen
“Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.”
Benjamin Banneker
“Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.”
Albert Camus
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