If faith thus depends on hope for its life, then the sin of unbelief is manifestly grounded in hopelessness. To be sure, it is usually said that sin in its original form is man’s wanting to be as God. But that is only the one side of sin. The other side of such pride is hopelessness, resignation, inertia, and melancholy. From this arise the tristesse and frustration which fill all living things with the seeds of a sweet decay. Among the sinners whose future is eternal death