Spurgeon quotes on depression

Fits of depression come over the most of us. Usually cheerful as we may be, we must at intervals be cast down. Spurgeon also suffered from depression.

I do not suppose there is any person in this assembly who ever has stronger fits of depression of spirits than I have myself personally” ( MTP 15:640). Here are some of his choice quotes on the theme: “I could weep by the hour like a chil and yet I knew not what I wept for. Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

The poor sinner trying to be saved by law is like a blind horse going round and round a mill, and never getting a step further, but only being whipped continually. His reputation as a famed and powerful preacher, his cheery wit, and his cigar-smoking manliness might lead us to imagine there could never be a chink in his Victorian Englishman’s armor. Share with your friends.

His weakness reminded him that, as humans, we are all designed from dust. As to mental maladies, is any man altogether sane? And I find no better cure for that depression than to trust in the Lord with all my heart, and seek to realize afresh the power of the peace-speaking blood of Jesus, and His infinite love in dying upon the cross to put away all my transgressions.

Antidepressants will not make us unfeeling people with little sensitivity to God. More than anything else it seems, this kept him from caving in to the adversities of his life. Joy in the Lord is one of the best preparations for the trials of this life.

The cure for care is joy in the Lord. His love, assured in His care, enveloped in grace, covered in mercies. I just keeping sitting at your feet Lord. There are times when solitude is better than society, and silence is wiser than speech. We should be better Christians if we were more alone, waiting upon Go and gathering through meditation on His Word spiritual strength for labour in his service.

Check out the quotes right here. I think God gave me this trial so I could see His glory. It is always a rich time. I know I can be a little mouthy on this site, so forgive me.

I am so happy to have fell upon your site. Only a year previously, an event happened that brought on a severe depression that he nearly didn’t recover from. Out of the depths I was forced to cry unto the Lord. Many in the “mental illness is spiritual” camp are suspicious of contemporary preachers and theologians. Early in his ministry, Asiatic cholera swept through the tenement section of London around New Park Street church.

As crowds grew at New Park Street Chapel, the congregation was forced to larger and larger facilities to accommodate them. He preached to thousands each Sunday and his sermons were mailed around the world. But he also experienced severe pain and recurring depression.

God comforts those that are “cast down.

His preaching and writing ministry was and is continuing to be used by God in the conversion and. The “Prince of Preachers” wrote numerous books, still in print today. And he suffered from depression. These verses shine light into dark places, give hope to the hopeless, and allow the depressed person to have God’s perspective rather than their own dismal view. If you’re depresse burn the following verses on your heart.

I believe that every particle of dust that dances in the sunbeam does not move an atom more or less than God wishes – that every particle of spray that dashes against the steamboat has its orbit, as well as the sun in the heavens – that the chaff from the hand of the winnower is steered as the stars in their courses.