But Jesus» use of the words expresses
a much greater despair at the isolation that he was experiencing as he, God the Son, was alienated from God, his own Father.
Not exact matches
Today we are perhaps more disappointed in life than former generations, and the repeated upheavals in the life of society and of individuals may be explained by this mood of
despair, because there is so
much colourless boredom in life despite its
great possibilities.
If in the ruins of Rome, St. Augustine dreamed of a civilisation that should be the City of God on earth, and penned, even while weighted with
despair and expectation of the end of the world, the noble outline of the Christian order which inspired so
much of mediaeval thought, how
much more reason have we today, with so
much greater resources, to expect for our civilisation a resurrection out of our decay.
With
much happiness you bring the dog home and to your
greatest despair, it relieves in front of you.
But the bigger problem — and the reason Copenhagen caused such
great despair — is that because governments did not agree to binding targets, they are free to pretty
much ignore their commitments.