Quotes about Burdened
I am bent and brought low; all day long I go about mourning.
- Psalm 38:6
You have not brought Me sheep for burnt offerings, nor honored Me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with offerings, nor wearied you with frankincense.
- Isaiah 43:23
He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains.
- Lamentations 3:7
Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
- Matthew 11:28
“Martha, Martha,” the Lord replied, “you are worried and upset about many things.
- Luke 10:41
It is not our intention that others may be relieved while you are burdened, but that there may be equality.
- 2 Corinthians 8:13
If any believing woman has dependent widows, she must assist them and not allow the church to be burdened, so that it can help the widows who are truly in need.
- 1 Timothy 5:16
I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.
- JRR Tolkien
When spiritual friends share their stories, the others listen without working. They rest. There's nothing to fix, nothing to improve. A spiritual community feels undisturbed quiet as they listen, certainly burdened . . . but still resting in the knowledge that the life within, the passion for holiness, is indestructible. It needs only to be nourished and released.
- Larry Crabb
But the shadow of the manner of these Defarges was dark upon himself, for all that, and in his secret mind it troubled him greatly.
- Charles Dickens
Why must the gate be narrow? Because you cannot pass beyond it burdened. To come in among these trees you must leave behind the six days' world, all of it, all of its plans and hopes. You must come without weapon or tool, alone, expecting nothing, remembering nothing, into the ease of sight, the brotherhood of eye and leaf.
- Wendell Berry
Why must the gate be narrow? Because you cannot pass beyond it burdened. To come into the woods you must leave behind the six days' world, all of it, all of its plans and hopes.
- Wendell Berry