11 Spurgeon Quotes on His Embodied-Soul Depression
According to his own writings, what did Spurgeon think about the cause of his depression?
1. “It is not repentance,” he speculated, “but indigestion or some other evil agency depressing the spirits.”
2. “The troubled man experiences a good deal, not because he is a Christian, but because he is a man, a sickly man, a man inclined to melancholy.”
3. “Do not think it unspiritual to remember that you have a body. . . . The physician is often as needful as the minister.”
4. “The mind can descend far lower than the body, for there are bottomless pits.”
5. “Some are touched with melancholy from their birth.”
6. “I have been very ill for more than five weeks, and during that time I have been brought into deep waters of mental depression.”
7. “A sluggish liver will produce most of those fearsome forebodings, which we are so ready to regard as spiritual emotions.”
8. “All mental work tends to weary and to depress, for much study is a weariness of the flesh.”
9. “I cannot yet call myself free from fits of deep depression, which are the result of brain-weariness; but I am having them less frequently, and therefore I hope they will vanish altogether.”
10. “Living in an unbroken series of summer days, where no cold mists are dreamed of, it is no great marvel that rheumatic pains fly away, and depression of spirit departs.”
11. Spurgeon called his depression “a prophet in rough clothing.” His weakness reminded him that, as humans, we are all designed from dust. “As to mental maladies, is any man altogether sane? Are we not all a little off the balance?”
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