Healing Dejection with Care

The Institutes, the Conferences and On the Incarnation

The Institutes, Book 9

Healing Dejection with Care

So, if we are eager to strive by the rules in the struggle of our spiritual combat, we ought to set about healing this disease too with no less care. For “as the moth harms the garment and the worm the wood, so dejection harms the heart of a man.” The divine Spirit has expressed the force of this dangerous and most harmful fault clearly and fittingly enough.