To be an atheist is to live your life in either complete and
utter despair because there is no hope, no reason, no purpose, or to live as animals do.
Not exact matches
We are, then, resident in this world, with the task of making it, so far as may be, a replica of the perfect justice and
utter charity of our homeland, but not surprised nor in
despair when the work can not be brought to complete fulfillment
because the conditions of our present place of residence do not permit, or our selfishness and pride interfere.
At the same time, the horror of hell, as real deprivation on the part of those who were loveless,
because they could not love nor accept love, finds its parallel in the state of lovelessness and hence of
utter despair, concerning which this psychology has so much to say.
The same cries of anguish and
despair can be
uttered with a heart that turns further away from God and rejects Him
because of the suffering.
For,
because you hear the preserved voices of each of the actual participants, their emotions, whether pain, anger, fear or
despair, still feel as raw and as real as when they were
uttered thirty or forty years ago.
Well, I got stuck in the middle alcove somewhere in the torso and Mr. Hitten at one point, in
utter despair and desperation, said more or less, what the high school teacher had said, «I'm going to promote you to life, not
because you deserve it, but
because I can't do anything with you.»