(b) If the cause of despair is spiritual sloth, one should meditate onthe greatness of God's power, mercy and IfProbabiliorists may become scrupulous, may not Probabilists become lax?687. --(a) Despair is a sin, for Holy Scripturedeclares woe to the fainthearted, who trust not God and lose patience(Ecclus. (e) Hope has the expectation of one day enteringinto eternal life, and hence he is guilty of despair who admits thatsalvation will be secured by others, but denies that he himself shouldexpect it.
The divine law expressly prescribing an act of faith (about whichwe spoke in 925), obliges in the following cases: (a) at th (b) Mental Dangers of the Passions. Darell, but wedeserve defeat. --Duties inReference to Marriage (2795).
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