Latest Sheila Walsh Quotes from Interviews

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• If depression has been viewed as a taboo subject in the church, then suicide and suicidal thoughts are the darkest secret of all. Talking about it doesn't make it more real or powerful; it brings it out of the shadows into the light and love of Christ.

  Sheila Walsh

  Suicide, Powerful, Real

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

• If guilt tells us that we've done something wrong, then shame tells us that we are something wrong. So many people feel isolated, not good enough, defined by the labels they wear rather than the identity they have in Christ. The love of Christ tells us that we're accepted; that we belong.

  Sheila Walsh

  People, Not Good Enough, Guilt

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

• Some view mental illness as a purely spiritual issue and deny the need for medication or other forms of treatment. Others view it as an illness with no spiritual aspect. I believe it's a combination of both.

  Sheila Walsh

  Spiritual, Believe, Mental Illness

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

• When depression or suicidal thoughts weigh heavily, the hardest thing to do is to fight. My battle weapons are the Word of God, meditation, confession, community, and worship. But each evening I take my medication with a prayer of thanksgiving that God has provided this kind of help for those of us who need it.

  Sheila Walsh

  Prayer, Suicidal, Fighting

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

• When I was hospitalized in 1992 with severe clinical depression I thought I was the only one. I didn't know of one other Christian struggling with any form of mental illness. What I didn't know then was that there are thousands and thousands of men and women who love God yet are struggling alone, in silence, full of shame. This has to end. It's time to shine the brightest light into the darkest corners of the church

  Sheila Walsh

  Christian, Struggle, Men

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

• We live in a culture of quick fixes. We want to feel better and we want to feel better now. I believe that's why many turn to alcohol and drugs because they want to numb the pain of life. In my life I have a choice. I can sit with my depression and look at Jesus or I can sit with Jesus and look at my depression. What I mean by that is I can focus on what's broken and wonder where God is or I can sit in the companionship of Christ who suffered for us and worship him in the middle of the mess. That gives my pain meaning and context.

  Sheila Walsh

  Jesus, Pain, Believe

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

• I got pregnant and turned 40 at the same time.

  Sheila Walsh

  Pregnant

  Source: www.cbn.com

• It's my absolute passionate belief that every single human being, man, woman, or child, is aching to find a face-to-face relationship with God.

  Sheila Walsh

  Children, Men, Faces

  Source: www.cbn.com

• Theres not one good thought in me, apart from God. Thats the good news.

  Sheila Walsh

  News, Good Thoughts, Good News

  Source: www.cbn.com

• When I work with Women of Faith, I probably talk to anything from 15- to 20,000 women a weekend. They are dying to hear somebody tell their story out loud and not self-combust, to bring all the secrets out of the shadow into Gods light.

  Sheila Walsh

  Weekend, Light, Self

  Source: www.cbn.com

• I was one of the loneliest people on the planet. You can be incredibly well known and very alone. And thats who I was. I was a well-known person who was very alone.

  Sheila Walsh

  People, Well Known, Planets

  Source: www.cbn.com

• I've never walked to an altar in my life. I gave my life to Christ in my bedroom as a child.

  Sheila Walsh

  Children, Christ, Bedroom

  Source: www.cbn.com