If you have to give a carnival to get people to come to church, then you will have to keep giving carnivals to keep them coming back.
- Charles Spurgeon
October 28, 2017
How Depression Feels
"What does mental illness actually look like and feel like? How is depression different from just feeling sad or discouraged or blue? I'm not the only one, certainly, to try to describe it. In his award-winning book Darkness Visible, William Styron writes:
'The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the foreknowledge that no remedy will come - not in a day, an hour, a month, or a minute. If there is mild relief, one knows that it is only temporary; more pain will follow. It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul. So the decision making of daily life involves not, as in normal affairs, shifting from one annoying situation to another less annoying - or from discomfort to relative comfort, or from boredom to activity - but moving from pain to pain. One does not abandon, even briefly, one's bed of nails, but is attached to it wherever one goes.' "
Darkness Is My Only Companion - Kathryn Greene-McCreight, pg 39
"Depression meant that every breath, every thought, every moment of consciousness ached, throbbed, stung."
Darkness Is My Only Companion - Kathryn Greene-McCreight, pg 55
October 20, 2017
Quotables - Charles Spurgeon
None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.
- Charles Spurgeon
October 14, 2017
October 13, 2017
October 04, 2017
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