Letter, Par.

 1  I, 1 |          children."3 Do not then despair of the most perfect change.
 2  I, 1 |          wont to plunge men into despair, but impiety of soul. Therefore
 3  I, 2 |      plunges us into thoughts of despair is that he may cut off the
 4  I, 2 |          of anxiety arising from despair; and if we accept it, it
 5  I, 3 |     refreshment; only let us not despair or grow weary of the return;
 6  I, 3 |     plant in us this thought (of despair); for (if he succeeds) he
 7  I, 3 |    bondage to the cogitations of despair, and has unstrung his own
 8  I, 4 |          passion, one might well despair as being unable to quench
 9  I, 6 |          destroy the counsels of despair, speaking. on this wise: "
10  I, 7 |   purpose under the reasoning of despair. To whom also the prophet
11  I, 7 |         he repented, and did not despair, he was restored, even after
12  I, 8 |        not continue in evil, nor despair of reconciliation, but let
13  I, 9 |         reasoning which comes of despair: for he knows that if we
14  I, 9 |          the place of tremor and despair lessens the fear and increases
15  I, 15|         naturally plunge us into despair, we take as much pains as
16  I, 15|          that one ought never to despair of the disorders of the
17  I, 15|        For even if thou shouldst despair of thyself ten thousand
18  I, 15|     thousand times, I will never despair of thee, and I will never
19  I, 15|  Nevertheless even so I will not despair of you; though you should
20  I, 16|         home as citizens. For to despair of ourselves not only has
21  I, 16|   despaired, and afterwards from despair sank into recklessness For
22  I, 16|          seized by the frenzy of despair are hence forward unmanageable,
23  I, 17| conversant with him, who did not despair of his salvation; he was
24  I, 17|         hope in God ought not to despair at all of such characters,
25  I, 18|         held down by the evil of despair; but just as that husbandman
26  I, 19|          the influence of strong despair have lapsed into a state
27  I, 19|         nor to be brought out of despair to confession, but with
28  I, 19|   cutting away the whole root of despair, to manifest zeal in the
29  I, 19|          root and mother of this despair? It is indolence; or rather
30  I, 19|       here also indolence breeds despair, and is itself nourished
31  I, 19|      itself nourished in turn by despair; and thus supplying each
32  I, 19|    indolent will never fall into despair, and on the other he who
33  I, 19|         good hopes, and does not despair of himself, will not be
34  I, 19|    sufficient to plunge him into despair, as if the buildings which
35  I, 19|         world above. Only do not despair do not fall back; for I
36 II, 1 |    warrior to be wounded, but to despair after the blow has been
37 II, 1 |        then there was no need to despair; nevertheless one would
38 II, 2 |        thou hadst given it up in despair, I should have reminded
39 II, 4 |    whilst others do not even now despair of thy salvation, but are
40 II, 4 |     would not have been right to despair, but to call to mind the
41 II, 5 |       destroys many. And this is despair, which cuts off from hope