SO GOOD QUOTES

To avoid entirely the benefits of medicine shows a contentious spirit. But there is no small danger of the mind falling into the error of supposing that every illness needs the aid of medicine.

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Pain often alerts us to something wrong inside the body. And depression serves a similar purpose, say holy counselors. It’s frequently given or allowed by God, they say, to draw our attention to something threatening the health of our soul. Most depression, in persons not suffering severe loss or injury or other trauma, comes from specific spiritual disorders (discussed in the chapter “Esau’s Depression”). So the medical art, though it may be used to give temporary physical relief, is not the primary need here. Rather, the spiritual treatment prescribed by physicians of the soul is the one called for.

God’s Path to Sanity
Dee Pennock