self-despair

It's probably obvious that you won't go crashing to the depths of self-despair with one bag of chips, one missed call, or one blown exercise session.

Russell Bishop: How to Rebuild Your Integrity 2010

Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik explains:Disciplining the body, interfering with its pleasure-seeking drives, organizing them into a meaningful whole, and relating them to a higher frame of reference by refusing to yield to the powerful push of the flesh and by resisting the rush of primitive lust, are attainable only at a high price in terms of self-denial, self-despair and self-sacrifice.

The Passionate Torah 2009

But instead of wallowing in self-despair, this former freelance medical writer took it upon herself to get involved.

Beth Feldman: Living with Breast Cancer 2008

Luther tells us that he "used frequently to be much offended at this doctrine," because it drove him to self-despair; but that he afterward found this kind of despair was profitable and near of kin to divine grace.

The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination 1959

It teaches us that lesson of which so many are fatally ignorant, the blessed lesson of self-despair.

The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination 1959

The self-despair of the intemperate mind arises, in a great measure, from the conviction that he is an outcast from public respect and sympathy.

Select Temperance Tracts American Tract Society

Prosper made a curious, silent gesture of self-despair and went out, feeling his way before him.

The Branding Iron Katharine Newlin Burt 1929

With that cry of self-despair, Maggie fell on her knees against the table, and buried her sorrow-stricken face.

V. The Last Conflict. Book VII—The Final Rescue 1917

The middle-aged, who have lived through their strongest emotions, but are yet in the time when memory is still half passionate and not merely contemplative, should surely be a sort of natural priesthood, whom life has disciplined and consecrated to be the refuge and rescue of early stumblers and victims of self-despair.

IX. Charity in Full-Dress. Book VI—The Great Temptation 1917

'_But_,' she adds, '_there is another memorial of Edgar Tryan, which bears a fuller record; it is Janet Dempster, rescued from self-despair, strengthened with Divine hopes, and now looking back on years of purity and helpful labor.

A Handful of Stars Texts That Have Moved Great Minds Frank Boreham 1915