DEPRESSION
Better to have a Christian’s days of sorrow, than a worldling’s days of mirth. WC87
To have something to do for Jesus, and to go right on with it, is one of the best ways
to get over a bereavement, or any heavy mental depression. If you can pursue some
great object, you will not feel that you are living for nothing. WE81
He who would have his spirit bowed down even to the very earth, has only to fix
his thoughts upon himself and his circumstances, instead of looking to God and his
promises. 428.15
Depression of spirit often leads to slackness of hand. 1096.94
We have our times of natural sadness; we have, too, our times of depression, when we
cannot do otherwise than hang our heads. Seasons of lethargy will also befall us from
changes in our natural frame, or from weariness, or the rebound of over excitement.
The trees are not always green, the sap sleeps in them in the winter; and we have
winters too. Life cannot always be at flood tide: the fulness of the blessing is not upon
the most gracious at all times. 1427.439
The worst forms of depression are cured when Holy Scripture is believed. 2084.260
I notice that people who have nothing to do but to sit down and stare into the black
hole of their own nature, are generally very sad, and not often very virtuous; but they
who, knowing how dark and sinful their nature is, trust Jesus for salvation, and then
spend their lives in doing the will of the Lord, these are they who are both holy and
happy. 2449.42
You cannot always rejoice, because, although your treasure is not in this world, your
affliction is. 3406.230
It is a good thing for the melancholy to become a Christian; it is an unfortunate thing
for the Christian to become melancholy. 3503.126