There is always sufficient reason for despair, but there is never sufficient purpose.
God left so many fingerprints at the scene of creation that you wonder — does He want to be found, or does He want to be stopped?
Better to start up a thousand wrong roads than to spend your life going nowhere because you know the way.
If you search the world for happiness, you may find it in the end, for the world is round and will lead you back to your door.