David B. Biebel > Quotes

“Indeed, depression changes the world itself and not just in the way the person views it.”
― David B. Biebel, New Light on Depression: Help, Hope, and Answers for the Depressed and Those Who Love Them

“Love—unconditional love—is the ultimate long-term antidote for depression, for at its core love is connected with faith and hope.”
― David B. Biebel, New Light on Depression: Help, Hope, and Answers for the Depressed and Those Who Love Them

“Freedom goes with suffering. Truth, wisdom, and knowledge of reality go with suffering.”
― David B. Biebel, New Light on Depression: Help, Hope, and Answers for the Depressed and Those Who Love Them

“Love somehow goes with suffering.”
― David B. Biebel, New Light on Depression: Help, Hope, and Answers for the Depressed and Those Who Love Them

“Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have.”
― David B. Biebel, New Light on Depression: Help, Hope, and Answers for the Depressed and Those Who Love Them

“The only way to exact meaning from an otherwise futile existence is to connect yourself by faith to God.”
― David B. Biebel, New Light on Depression: Help, Hope, and Answers for the Depressed and Those Who Love Them

“So when believers are afflicted by the “demon whose name is depression,”17 the best word for this may be oppression rather than possession.”
― David B. Biebel, New Light on Depression: Help, Hope, and Answers for the Depressed and Those Who Love Them

“Christian psychiatrists have examined exorcism for the treatment of schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, although they do not report good results with these conditions.”
― David B. Biebel, New Light on Depression: Help, Hope, and Answers for the Depressed and Those Who Love Them

“I just want you to know that I will do anything to help you through this difficult time. But I need to learn what to say and what not to say, what to do and what not to do, so I can be an encouragement and not hurt you unintentionally. I am even willing to attend this group by myself to learn these things, but it would be much better if you would go too. Then we could discuss the experience and what we both learn from it.”
― David B. Biebel, New Light on Depression: Help, Hope, and Answers for the Depressed and Those Who Love Them

“For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he already has? But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently. —Romans 8:18–25,”
― David B. Biebel, New Light on Depression: Help, Hope, and Answers for the Depressed and Those Who Love Them

“Viktor Frankl, a Jewish psychiatrist, survived a Nazi concentration camp to write Man’s Search for Meaning,”
― David B. Biebel, New Light on Depression: Help, Hope, and Answers for the Depressed and Those Who Love Them

“Depression is not a state of mind but a state of being.”
― David B. Biebel, New Light on Depression: Help, Hope, and Answers for the Depressed and Those Who Love Them