Sentences with phrase «better than despair»

Optimism is better than despair.

These provisional hopes are no doubt rather better than despair, for desperate actions and policies are generated in despair.

Not exact matches

It is better for denomination or network leaders to be prepared to respond to dying churches rather than to react to the despair of confused churchless members as churches move toward closure.

It assumes that every man must know by himself better than anyone else whether he is in despair or not.

It is a much better place for me than despair.

Better to refuse to face reality than to be overwhelmed by despair.

At the end of the day after the blood was spilled & death made it's grand entrance; the people of God, the Christians gathered for prayer, not because we had the answers or that we are somehow better than those who don't believe what we believe, but because even at the center of despair, we feel an undying need to taste our Father's grace when all else seems to be lost.

«If we can't reach the pinnacle, being overlooked and seldom thought about is a far better alternative than the pain and despair of coming close, again and again.»

A point was obviously better than nothing but watching our London neighbours Chelsea move a frightening eleven points clear of us after just eight games has left us in despair.

Nowhere is this better illustrated than in Egypt, where the hope and optimism of the Arab Spring has already turned to despair and fear.

As someone who gives a somewhat greater credibility to polls than many, I was not among those of the true faith who never doubted that Labour would do well, and indeed was, until late April, in despair as polls had consistently for about five months indicated a Tory landslide, for which the poor local election -LSB-...]

Beginning with the good, here's Edward G. Robinson tapping his mortality (he succumbed to cancer less than two weeks after production wrapped), finding in his celluloid swan song a depth of despair he rarely touched in his career proper.

Not only is it good for the bottom line (audiences hunger for films with characters they can relate to, and with themes that touch on hope rather than mere despair and destruction), but it can lead to a change in the conversations about our future.»

Moments of World of Tomorrow Episode Two cut to the heart, showing the beauty of despair and the power of acceptance and companionship better than most movies can with five times the length.

If there's a way to tell a story about cancer, avoiding downbeat despair and plugging in distinctly English humor without seeming flippant or anything less than honest, director Catherine Hardwicke and screenwriter Morwenna Banks (whose 2013 BBC radio play «Goodbye» was the inspiration) do it well, finding a tricky balance between dignified and accessible.

Nobody's better at conveying the anxiety and despair lurking just beneath the surface of preppy WASPs than Kinnear, whose faintly tragic striver carries the can - do spirit of the American dream to pathological levels.

However, not all revolutions need result in a «winter of despair» but can lead us to a far better place than we have ever been before.

For these students — primarily African American and Latino, but also poor students of all backgrounds — the teachers who believe in and push them, who refuse to accept anything less than the best from them, often make the single greatest difference between a life of hope and one of despair.

Sojourner Truth Academy Sojourner Truth, which surrendered its charter at the end of this past year in despair of being able to raise test scores, did not have more than 25 percent of students score «Good» or «Excellent» in any subject.

The good news is that 256,795 fewer fourth - graders are functionally illiterate and on the path to despair than in 2002, the year after the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act, based on Dropout Nation «s estimates of federal enrollment data.

And there's nothing better than receiving a friendly reader email when you are in the pit of creative despair, to remind you while you struggle through writing in the first place.

Few people have put this better than Mahatma Gandhi: «When I despair, I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won.

I write because history shows us — heck, The Daily Show and Roxane Gay and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and thousands of journalists and bloggers and working poets and writers literally show us every day — that it's the best weapon against hopelessness and despair and loneliness, mightier than tear gas and homophobia and injustice and corrupt politicians and fracking and every other evil in the world, and every bit as necessary for reaching our human potential as oxygen is for continued function of the brain.

Plus, I find I feel better when I am splashing around in hope rather than in despair.

I still love my Wii console, and I am falling in love with my 3DS, but I am looking forward to the promised future with hope, rather than toward the sordid past with sadness, because... Well, to put it in pirate language, «Arrgh... That way lies despair.»

If you want more of the history and basic gameplay functions than I go into here, I would like to forward you over to my original review of Danganronpa 1 - 2 Reload, as well as my Ultra Despair Girls review.

1954 Alcatraz is more mature and «American» than most of Daedalic's work; the game explores and embraces the social diversity of San Francisco, as well as the brutal, fight - ridden despair of prison.

I despair of many of the examples used; surely we as a species can do better things with our time than pretend that Cheerios are an efficient way to improve parenting?

The war against global warming, hunger and despair will be won by the good people of the world because there are more of us than the other kind.

For many who heard Wangari tell the story, the message of maximizing our abilities and passions for the greater good rather than descending into cynicism or despair was galvanizing.

Moreover, for those students who do not do well in the «first - year tournament,» a common response appears to be disengagement and despair rather than a sense of agency and ownership in which students decide to become self - directed and begin the process of life - long learning.