Sydney Johnson’s Reviews > Encouragement for the Depressed > Status Update

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“Depression has now become to me as a prophet in the rough clothing, a John the Baptist heralding the nearer coming of my Lord’s richer benison.”

“…we should be as the chaff that the wind drives away were it not that the gracious discipline of mercy breaks the ships of our vainglory with a strong east wind and casts us shipwrecked, naked and forlorn, upon the Rock of Ages.”

“Patience has its martyrs; martyrs none the less to be honored because the flames kindle about their spirits rather than their bodies, and their burning is unseen of human eyes… but honor those who, being faint, are still pursuing…”