Hope vs. Despair
"The adversary uses despair to bind hearts and minds in suffocating darkness. Despair drains from us all that is vibrant and joyful and leaves behind the empty remnants of what life was meant to be. Despair kills ambition, advances sickness, pollutes the soul, and deadens the heart. Despair can seem like a staircases that leads only and forever downward.
Hope, on the other hand, is like the beam of sunlight rising up and above te horizon or our present circumstances. It pierces the darkness with a brilliant dawn. It encourages and inspires us to place our trust in the loving care of an eternal Heavenly Father, who has prepared a way for those who seek for eternal truth in a world of relativism, confusion, and of fear" ("The Infinite Power of Hope," Dieter F. Uchtdorf, Ensign, November, 2008, p. 22).
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