Quotes about Burdens
The real trouble is that the pure Word of Jesus has been overlaid with so much human ballast—burdensome rules and regulations, false hopes and consolations—that it has become extremely difficult to make a genuine decision for Christ.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
No matter how dark and gloomy it looks in your life right now, if you'll release the weight of those burdens, you will see the sun break forth.
- Joel Osteen
The cares of this life emerge as very small items indeed along our daily path.
- Watchman Nee
In a government whose distinguishing characteristic should be a diffusion and equalization of its benefits and burdens the advantage of individuals will be augmented at the expense of the community at large.
- Martin Van Buren
When you help others, your own troubles aren't as heavy. In fact, you can fold them like a handkerchief and place them in your pocket. They're still there, but they're not the only thing you carry.
- Alice Hoffman
To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.
- Dallas Willard
When you dig another out of their troubles, you find a place to bury your own.
- Anonymous
Increased spiritual strength is a gift from God which He can give when we push in His service to our limits. Through the power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ, our natures can be changed. Then our power to carry burdens can be increased more than enough to compensate for the increased service we will be asked to give.
- Henry B. Eyring
In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another's good, and bearing one another's burdens.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Only people who know they have burdens can be delivered from them.
- Edward Welch
I can't imagine Christ being weak and carrying on about his burdens to women, let alone an Oprah type of woman. We respect and believe in Christ because of the way he dealt with life and how he overcame evil with good. His strength and love encourages those sincerely seeking to believe in God.
- Jesse Lee Peterson
The greater your cares, the more genuine your prayers
- Max Lucado