Despair Quotes - Page 10

Life could only be lived with a heroic faith.

Lailah Gifty Akita

You ought to read, mediate and affirm the living word of God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Don’t be afraid to live life. There is grace for the living.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Knowlege of God without knowledge of man's wretchedness leads to pride. Knowledge of man's wretchedness without knowledge of God leads to despair. Knowledge of Jesus Christ is the middle course, because by it we discover both God and our wretched state.

Without hope we fail to exist.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The manifestation of physical victory was first won spiritually. Prayer is our greatest weapon!

Lailah Gifty Akita

Keep trusting God. He will lead you in every step of the journey.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Circumvent negative influences, circumstances and people.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I shall not be afraid of a calamity. God is my defender.

Lailah Gifty Akita

May our lifestyles be a testimony of the hope we have in Christ Jesus.

Lailah Gifty Akita

You are capable of great deeds.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Blessed is the person who desired to read the Holy Scriptures. It’s brings great reward to those who believe, trust and obey the Holy instructions.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Gracious words refresh, restore and revive the soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

You need not to hate most of the people, life already hates them.

Dancing in the rain is better than despairing in the storm.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The dark skies of despair are no match for the bright skies of hope.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Courage lightens distress, hope alleviates grief, doubt aggravates affliction, fear worsens anguish, worry magnifies misery, and faith overthrows despair.

Matshona Dhliwayo

[Charles] Nodier’s later view was that fantasy reconciles men to their fate. Fantasy and the taste for chimeras, he wrote, are symptoms of a time of political decay and transition, when the unpleasant realities of political life are too hard to bear. They serve a useful purpose in that they give men hope when scepticism and disillusion would otherwise drive them to despair.

Your special spiritual gifts and talents are your calling.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Music lifted our spirit.

Lailah Gifty Akita

And then she caught the song. She fell upon it and music poured from the fiddle’s hollow, bright and liquid like fire out of the heart of the earth. Pierre-Jean drew back and stood mesmerized. The room around Fin stirred as every ear bent to the ring of heartsong. It rushed through Fin and spread to the outermost and tiniest capillary reaches of her body. Her flesh sang. The hairs of her arms and neck roused and stood. She sped the bow across the strings. Her fingers danced on the fingerboard quick as fat raindrops. Every man in the room that night would later swear that there was a wind within it. They would tell their children and lovers that a hurricane had filled the room, toppled chairs, driven papers and sheets before it and blew not merely around them but through them, taking fears, grudges, malice, and contempt with it, sending them spiraling out into the night where they vanished among the stars like embers rising from a bonfire. And though the spirited cry of the fiddle’s song blew through others and around the room and everything in it, Fin sat at the heart of it. It poured into her. It found room in the closets and hollow places of her soul to settle and root. It planted seeds: courage, resolve, steadfastness. Fin gulped it in, seized it, held it fast. She needed it, had thirsted for it all her days. She saw the road ahead of her, and though she didn’t understand it or comprehend her part in it, she knew that she needed the ancient and reckless power of a holy song to endure it. She didn’t let the music loose. It buckled and swept and still she clung to it, defined it in notes and rhythm, channeled it like a river bound between mountain steeps. And a thing happened then so precious and strange that Fin would ever after remember it only in the formless manner of dreams. The song turned and spoke her name—her true name, intoned in a language of mysteries. Not her earthly name, but a secret word, defining her alone among all created things. The writhing song spoke it, and for the first time, she knew herself. She knew what it was to be separated out, held apart from every other breathing creature, and known. Though she’d never heard it before and wouldn’t recall it after, every stitch of her soul shook in the passage of the word, shuddered in the wake of it, and mourned as the sound sped away. In an instant, it was over. The song ended with the dissonant pluck of a broken string.

Music — good music, great music — had a hard, irreducible purity to it. It might be bitter and despairing and pessimistic, but it could never be cynical. If music is tragic, those with asses’ ears accuse it of being cynical. But when a composer is bitter, or in despair, or pessimistic, that still means he believes in something.

You see, there's some blues for folks ain't never had a thing, and that's a sad blues ... but the saddest kind of blues is for them that's had everything they ever wanted and has lost it, and knows it won't come back no more. Ain't no sufferin' in this world worse than that; and that's the blue we call 'I Had It But It's All Gone Now.

When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.

Dmitri Shostakovich

Money can cloud your vision. Sometimes, God takes away the money and uses times of adversity to refine us like gold.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Only God can satisfy and set us free.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We held on to great memories. This sustains us in every moment.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Hope is a flourishing flower.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The deepest comfort comes from the divine self.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Look to the Lord and the power of His grace.

Lailah Gifty Akita

You must choose a positive response to any situation. This is the first action to conquer it.

Lailah Gifty Akita

You must choose a positive response to any situation. This is the step action to conquer it.

Lailah Gifty Akita

My strength is in the Lord. In him, I breathe, live and move.

Lailah Gifty Akita

At the crossroad, may God point the straight path for your journey.

Lailah Gifty Akita

At crossroad, God is our guide post. He points the right path.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is an individual race of endurance.

Lailah Gifty Akita

You are a wonderful sacred-soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I carry my burdens to the Lord. He lightens the weight on my shoulders.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Rest and your energy will be restored.

Lailah Gifty Akita

It is the toughest time but the best.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Bitterness leads to misery.

Lailah Gifty Akita

A person’s outlook on life colors their interpretation of specific events. Human beings’ behavioral and thinking patterns enable people to thrive or cause them to live in despondency and despair.

Kilroy J. Oldster

We all face difficult times. It is only the grace of God that gives strength to endure.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Love is splendid light.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The secret tugs at my sleeve.A child looking for attention.It is not a big secret.But it is not the only one either.“Strength in numbers” they say.For they are many.Many little things that – together –weigh tonnes.And take up space.And are quite noisy.The way only a lot of whispers can make noise.And they follow me.Little secretsof omission, desire,and denial.Of indulgence, hedonism,and exploration.Of peeves, passion,and deep-seated fear.Little secretsof despairanddisrepairandprohibited thoroughfare.

Adelheid Manefeldt

To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow.

The victory over our inner self is a daily struggle. Be strong and do not give up.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We must read, mediate and affirm the writings of Holy Scriptures, to partake in the divine nature and overcome the struggles of life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We must graciously endure the times.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Lord heal the broken hearted.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Be strong. You will overcome the challenge.

Lailah Gifty Akita

May God protect us from every calamity.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Difficulties of life are valuable opportunities for self-discovery.

Lailah Gifty Akita

When you face any difficulty, do not panic but pray.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Adversity tests the limit of your strength.

Lailah Gifty Akita

With perseverance and endurance you can survive any storm.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Embrace life with hope than despair.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Every challenge is an opportunity for spiritual growth.

Lailah Gifty Akita

All experiences are preordained by the Creator.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Let go of all the pain. Embrace the joy of life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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