Psalm 31:22 (NIV) In my alarm I said, "I am cut off from your sight!" Yet you heard my cry for mercy when I called to you for help.
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and recovered hope. —George Eliot
Leadership, Vol. 9, no. 2, Elesha Hodge, comp., Today's Best Illustrations – Volumes 1-4, (Carol Stream, IL: Christianity Today, 1997), WORDsearch CROSS e-book, Under: "DESPAIR".
