Desmond Tutu:

I wish I could remember where I heard this, but someone once said that 'despair is a form of spiritual pride.' I think it's true. When we despair, we are saying, 'I am smarter than God. I know what's going to happen, and it's going to be bad.'

— Desmond Tutu Contemporary

South African anti-apartheid cleric

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