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“Doubt is brother-devil to Despair.”

Doubt Brother Despair Devil

Book:Watchwords

Source: Watchwords

“There is a virtuous fear, which is the effect of faith; and there is a vicious fear, which is the product of doubt. The former leads to hope, as relying on God, in whom we believe; the latter inclines to despair, as not relying on God, in whom we do not believe. Persons of the one character fear to lose God; persons of the other character fear to find Him.”

Believe Persons Character Fear Loses Doubt Effects Products Despair Former Latter Virtuous Vicious Incline Relying On God

Author:Blaise Pascal

“Never give up! it is wiser and betterAlways to hope, than once to despair.Fling off the load of Doubt's cankering fetter,And break the dark spell of tyrannical care.”

Giving Care Dark Break Doubt Despair Giving Up Spells Load Wiser Never Giving Up Fling Fetters

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“The year that 'Lost' started and premiered was, without a doubt, the most miserable year of my life. The level of despair and anguish that I was feeling; I was clinically depressed, and anyone that you talked to who knew me at the time will tell you that.”

Years Feelings Lost Levels Doubt Despair Miserable Anguish Time Will Tell

Author:Damon Lindelof

“The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair. Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts. This may be the vocation of man: to say "Amen" to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.”

Men Humans Heart May Might Doubt Despair Infinite Bottom Defeat Deeper Spite Faith In God Absurdity Human Heart Abyss Vocation Anchors Defiance Futility Amen Debris

Book:Who is Man?

Source: Who is Man?

“Scientific discovery is a private event, and the delight that accompanies it, or the despair of finding it illusory, does not travel. One scientist may get great satisfaction from another's work and admire it deeply; it may give him great intellectual pleasure; but it gives him no sense of participation in the discovery, it does not carry him away, and his appreciation of it does not depend on his being carried away. If it were otherwise the inspirational origin of scientific discovery would never have been in doubt.”

Source: The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science

“The signs that presage growth, so similar, it seems to me, to those in early adolescence: discontent, restlessness, doubt, despair, longing, are interpreted falsely as signs of decay. In youth one does not as often misinterpret the signs; one accepts them, quite rightly, as growing pains. One takes them seriously, listens to them, follows where they lead. ... But in the middle age, because of the false assumption that it is a period of decline, one interprets these life-signs, paradoxically, as signs of approaching death.”

“If thy faith have no doubts, thou has just cause to doubt thy faith; and if thy doubts have no hope, thou hast just reason to fear despair; when therefore thy doubts shall exercise thy faith, keep thy hopes firm to qualify thy doubts; so shall thy faith be secured from doubts; so shall thy doubts be preserved from despair.”

Ifs Reason Faith Causes Doubt Exercise Despair Firm No Doubt No Hope Secured

Author:Francis Quarles

“Doubt is thought's despair; despair is personality's doubt. . . . Doubt and despair . . . belong to completely different spheres; different sides of the soul are set in motion. . . . Despair is an expression of the total personality, doubt only of thought.”

Different Soul Sides Doubt Expression Personality Despair Spheres Different Sides

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“Uncertain ways unsafest are, and doubt a greater mischief than despair.”

Way Doubt Greater Despair Uncertain Mischief Doubted

Book:The poetical works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham

Source: The poetical works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham

“Those who say they believe in God and yet neither love nor fear Him, do not in fact believe in Him but in those who have taught them that God exists. Those who believe that they believe in God, but without any passion in their heart, any anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God-idea, not in God.”

Mind Believe Heart Ideas Facts Passion Doubt Taught Despair Elements Uncertainty Believe In God Anguish Consolation God Exists

Author:Miguel de Unamuno