We know that quite often, depression and sexual addiction go hand - in - hand, and
we know despair is something addicts fight on a regular basis.
Whether you're a «dog person» or a «cat person,» we can all relate to the comfort that our furry friends bring to all of us, and
we all know the despair that comes when our pets get lost.
Companies targeting these individuals
know the despair they feel and use that emotion to con clients out of money.
This tragic turn of events would be enough to fling a more highly evolved creature into despair, but cockroaches
know no despair.
«No one would
know the despair of unemployment like the people in the Bronx would,» said Paterson, who said that the Bronx unemployment statistics indicate a state of emergency.
I have been burned out and
I know despair.
There were times when
I know he despaired over my unwillingness to apply myself solely to my Ph.D. research.
Not exact matches
If your industry doesn't seem to fit into any of these groups, don't
despair — a little research will go a long way toward illuminating ideal niche audiences that you probably never even
knew existed.
In the same way a mother can fall into a depression when ending of a intensely emotional, highly personal child - bearing experience, a founder can experience immense
despair when her company is
no longer a vital part of her everyday life.
You can see the water, or you
know it's there, or you actually own a water allocation but have been told that you can't use it — don't
despair.
Sadly, you also often hear about suicides, and there are few parents I
know who don't
despair when they see the blue glow from the bedroom where their child should be asleep.
The Retail Revival provides
no - nonsense clarity on the realities of a completely new retail marketplace — realities that are driving many industry executives to
despair.
Without hunger how would I
know hospitality Without thirst how would I
know satisfaction Without hate how would I
know love Without
despair how would I
know hope Without disease how would I
know health Without poverty how would I
know wealth Without suffering how would I
know prosperity Without death how would I
know life Without a devil how would I
know God because Without a cross there is no Christ.
In the end we didn't
know his heart, only God did, and in his last breath, couldn't a man so driven by
despair at what he had done ask forgiveness from God?
No, not because of the afflicted souls who haunt his verse, or because of the
despairs and demons of the dark night of the soul that lace The Sleep of Reason, but rather because he thinks that we won't acknowledge these things sufficiently.
I was taught that there were only 2 sins the Spirit could not forgive
despair and presumption: presuming to
know the mind of God and presuming to judge for him surely is a sin against the Spirit, your sin, and you should perhaps ponder your own salvation, not someone else's.
Achieving Our Country is a poignant plea to heal that breach, and since Rorty
knows that his book will be read more by professors than by plumbers, he stretches his liberalism to appease both the academic apocalypticists of
despair and the leftists of sexual and cultural liberation.
Hope amidst suffering, hope when men
know only defeat and
despair, hope when death seems to smother out the shoots of life springing from the hearts of men, hope for our society, our world, our city, our schools, courts, prisons, legislatures, hope for our children, for our elderly, hope for all the millions of men and women over the face of this globe who simply want to live out their lives as free human beings not trampled down and stepped on by the overlords of this world.
We can slink away in
despair and denial or we can crawl back into God's big saving hands, Isaiah proclaimed, and the birth, death and resurrection of Jesus confirmed, that this God who
knows all, creates all, controls all and plans all also loves all.
Perhaps when he said, «I do not
know the man,» he was not so much being a coward as expressing his confusion and
despair.
And if I still refused to understand him, he would
no doubt bring me to
despair by the coldness of his irony, as he unfolded to me that he owed me as much as I owed him.
It takes an adult self - consciousness — the experience of an adult living and trying to believe but
knowing doubt, trying to do the right thing but
knowing failure, trying to be confident but sensing
despair — to also
know that there is a part of God that helps us through those obstacles, a part which is different from God's love or Christ's gift of salvation.
I do
know this for certain, however: the
despair inside those cars is being made complete by the realization of utter abandonment - was there ever an abandonment like unto this?
We have a choice: the more we get to
know people we can either
despair and resort...
but it is a vessel of grace and guided by One who
knows where we need to sail and what waters we need to navigate even if those waters are rough and choppy to the point of
despair we shall be guided through, flawed vessel that we are.
I
knew real suffering but not
despair.
; (Jeremiah 15:18) and in his
despair he pleaded with God in terms that
knew no restraint — «Hast thou utterly rejected Judah?
How comforting it is to
know that the rock has room for the presence of another human being who can offer God's hope and care in the face of
despair and confusion.
He is present to us only in his absence, and to
know the absent or the missing God is to
know a void that must be filled with
despair and rebellion, an Angst deriving from a ressentiment that is itself created by an inability to bear a full existence in the present moment.
The man who does not
know freedom in Christ can not understand the word of freedom Paul spoke in the midst of necessity: «We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to
despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed» (II Corinthians 4:8 - 9).
In a gracious and loving style, Wayne Jacobsen provides encouragement, hope, and direction to all who have
known that there must be something more to this thing we call Church, but have almost
despaired of ever finding it.
Powerfully they evoke and express depth meanings along the dimensions of: love and hate, hope and
despair, freedom and bondage, the desire to
know and the dread of
knowing, winning and losing, strength and weakness, inclusion and exclusion, joy and flatness, individualization and communion, independence and dependence, masculinity and femininity.6
Buber has said that the modern age is dominated by a Paulinism without grace — we are overwhelmed by alienation,
despair and guilt, but we
know nothing of Paul's celebration of faith, hope, and love.
I
know not why I felt a mixed sensation of
despair and tenderness, excepting that, ever called a bastard, a bastard appeared to me an object of the greatest compassion in creation.»
The overall effect was very much like a rollercoaster: slightly scary because the riders did not
know exactly how the car would twist and turn, but not scary enough to warrant
despair, for they
knew the outcome.
In pique —
no, in
despair — I wrote her a long series of analytic propositions.
No, it is not the aesthetic definition of spiritlessness which furnishes the scale for judging what is
despair and what is not; the definition which must be used is the ethico - religious: either spirit / or the negative lack of spirit, spiritlessness.
The minimum of
despair is a state which (as one might humanly be tempted to express it) by reason of a sort of innocence does not even
know that there is such a thing as
despair.
It assumes that every man must
know by himself better than anyone else whether he is in
despair or not.
How do you
know the difference between a good question and one that's aimed to create fear, division, and
despair?
Violence on TV, unlike real life violence, rarely occurs between people who
know each other well, and most of it does not result from rage, hate,
despair, or panic, but from the businesslike pursuit of personal gain, power, or duty.
No,
despair verily is not something which appears only in the young, something out of which one grows as a matter of course — «as one grows out of illusion.»
He himself
knows well enough in a way up to a certain point that he is in
despair, he notices it in himself, as one notices in oneself that one is going about with an illness as yet unpronounced, but he will not quite admit what illness it is.
He
knows what
despair is, he is acquainted with it, and hence he is not satisfied with a man's assertion that he is in
despair or that he is not.
And, oh, when the hour - glass has run out, the hourglass of time, when the noise of worldliness is silenced, and the restless or the ineffectual busyness comes to an end, when everything is still about thee as it is in eternity — whether thou wast man or woman, rich or poor, dependent or independent, fortunate or unfortunate, whether thou didst bear the splendor of the crown in a lofty station, or didst bear only the labor and heat of the day in an inconspicuous lot; whether thy name shall be remembered as long as the world stands (and so was remembered as long as the world stood), or without a name thou didst cohere as nameless with the countless multitude; whether the glory which surrounded thee surpassed all human description, or the judgment passed upon thee was the most severe and dishonoring human judgement can pass — eternity asks of thee and of every individual among these million millions only one question, whether thou hast lived in
despair or not, whether thou wast in
despair in such a way that thou didst not
know thou wast in
despair, or in such a way that thou didst hiddenly carry this sickness in thine inward parts as thy gnawing secret, carry it under thy heart as the fruit of a sinful love, or in such a way that thou, a horror to others, didst rave in
despair.
Yes, to be sure, it is a fact that there was a man whom repentance first overtook in the painfulness of old age, when he
no longer had the strength to sin, so that the repentance not only came late, but the
despair of late repentance became the final stage.
If on the contrary the self does not become itself, it is in
despair, whether it
knows it or not.
But this is the only way immediacy
knows how to fight, the one thing it
knows how to do: to
despair and swoon — and yet it
knows what
despair is less than anything else.
And herein consists the obscurity, especially in all lower forms of
despair, and in almost all despairers, that with such passionate clearness a man sees and
knows over what he is in
despair, but about what it is escapes his notice.
This... improved condition, which true enough has come about with the years, he now in
despair regards as a good, he readily assures himself (and in a certain satirical sense there is nothing more sure) that it now never could occur to him to
despair —
no, he has assured himself against this, yet he is in
despair, spiritually in
despair.