Quotes about Burden
It's the truth. It just felt like the whole business was fetching and hauling, all the time trying to hold this mess together she was making all the time.
- John Updike
The greatest sorrow and burden you can lay on the Father, the greatest unkindness you can do to him is not to believe that he loves you.
- John Owen
Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Forgiveness takes the burden of hate, guilt, and bitterness off your back and, with a lighter load, you can climb higher and faster, and be much happier in the process.
- Zig Ziglar
When I learned to forgive, it was like a million pounds were lifted from me.
- Reba McEntire
If being human requires freedom, then enslavement to the cares of this world is dehumanizing.
- Tony Campolo
Sometimes the power of prayer is the power to carry on. It doesn't always change your circumstances, but it gives you the strength to walk through them. When you pray through, the burden is taken off of your shoulders and put on the shoulders of Him who carried the cross to Calvary.
- Mark Batterson
hundred pounds." Sometimes the power of prayer is the power to carry on. It doesn't always change your circumstances, but it gives you the strength to walk through them. When you pray through, the burden is taken off of your shoulders and put on the shoulders of Him who carried the cross to Calvary. After
- Mark Batterson
But what we find is that flight becomes captivity: once we begin to flee the things that threaten and burden us, there is no end to fleeing.
- Mark Buchanan
When an answer I did not expect comes to a prayer which I believed I truly meant, I shrink back from it; if the burden my Lord asks me to bear be not the burden of my heart's choice, and I fret inwardly and do not welcome His will, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
- Amy Carmichael
Heavy thoughts bring on physical maladies; when the soul is oppressed so is the body.
- Martin Luther
I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.