Christians Get Depressed Too Quotes

“It is important to remember the two main principles that govern our understanding of depression: Avoid dogmatism and seek humility. Avoid extremes and seek balance.”
― David P. Murray, Christians Get Depressed Too

“David and other psalmists often found themselves deeply depressed for various reasons. They did not, however, apologize for what they were feeling, nor did they confess it as sin. It was a legitimate part of their relationship with God. They interacted with Him through the context of their depression.2”
― David P. Murray, Christians Get Depressed Too

“Death would be welcome as a relief by those whose depressed spirits make their existence a living death.”
― David P. Murray, Christians Get Depressed Too

“So, if you are depressed, the first searching questions you must ask yourself is, "Do I want to be made whole?" You have no hope of recovery from depression unless you want to recover and are, therefore, prepared to play your own significant part in the recovery process.”
― David P Murray, Christians Get Depressed Too: Hope and Help for Depressed People

“The Psalms treat depression more realistically than many of today’s popular books on Christianity and psychology. David and other psalmists often found themselves deeply depressed for various reasons. They did not, however, apologize for what they were feeling, nor did they confess it as sin. It was a legitimate part of their relationship with God. They interacted with Him through the context of their depression.2 Another”
― David P. Murray, Christians Get Depressed Too

“For example, symptoms of depression-anxiety can be seen in Moses (Num. 11:14), Hannah (1 Sam. 1:7, 16), and Jeremiah (Jer. 20:14–18; Lam. 3:1–6). In these cases it is difficult to say whether the symptoms reflect a depression or a dip. Martin Lloyd-Jones argues from biblical evidence that Timothy suffered from near-paralyzing anxiety.1”
― David P. Murray, Christians Get Depressed Too

“Really to die and to be with Christ will be a gala day’s enjoyment compared with our misery when a worse than physical death has cast its dreadful shadow over us. Death would be welcome as a relief by those whose depressed spirits make their existence a living death. Are good men ever permitted to suffer thus? Indeed they are; and some of them are even all their lifetime subject to bondage.... It is a sad case when our only hope lies in the direction of death, our only liberty of spirit amid the congenial horrors of corruption.... He felt as if he were utterly forgotten as those whose carcasses are left to rot on the battlefield. As when a soldier, mortally wounded, bleeds unheeded amid the heaps of slain, and remains to his last expiring groan, unpitied and unsuccoured, so did Heman sigh out his soul in loneliest sorrow, feeling as if even God Himself had quite forgotten him. How low the spirits of good and brave man will sometimes sink. Under the influence of certain disorders everything will wear a somber aspect, and the heart will dive into the profoundest deeps of misery.”
― David P. Murray, Christians Get Depressed Too

“For Christians there will often need to be a balance between medicines for the brain, rest for the body, counsel for the mind, and spiritual encouragement for the soul. Recovery will usually take patient perseverance over a period of many months, and in some cases, even years.”
― David P. Murray, Christians Get Depressed Too

“is all very well for those who are in robust health and full of spirits to blame those whose lives are sicklied or covered with the pale cast of melancholy, but the [malady] is as real as a gaping wound, and all the more hard to bear because it lies so much in the region of the soul that to the inexperienced it appears to be a mere matter of fancy and diseased imagination.”
― David P. Murray, Christians Get Depressed Too