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Despair: Quotations from Burning Words

Despair is the damp of hell; rejoicing is the serenity of heaven.— DONNE

It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent.— JEREMY TAYLOR

Disordered nerves are the origin of much religious despair, when the individual does not suspect it; and then the body and mind have a reciprocal influence upon each other, and it is difficult to tell which influences the other most. The physician is often blamed, when the fault lies with the minister. Lepression never benefits body or soul. We are saved by hope.— ICHABOD SPENCER

Mr. Fearing had, I think, a slough of despond in his mind, a slough that he carried everywhere with him, or else he could never have been as he was.— JOHN BUNYAN