Quotes about Burden

Legalism leaches joy.

Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. MATTHEW 11:29 (NIV)

The burlap bag of worry. Cumbersome. Chunky. Unattractive. Scratchy. Hard to get a handle on. Irritating to carry and impossible to give away. No one wants your worries.

One dark night the skeletons that they had carefully hidden in an obscure closet appeared, grabbed them around the throat, and strangled them.

Only when we find our place in Him that we find rest. David said it with beautiful simplicity: I am at rest in God alone. PSALM 62:1, CSB Though the path to this discovery is often painful, the discovery itself can be a relief—and not only to us. It gives us space to spread out and grow, and it relieves our other loves of a burden too big to carry. And there we can bear mysterious fruit. [

This is what love for God is: to keep His commands. Now His commands are not a burden. 1 John 5:3

Cast your burden on the LORD, and He shall sustain you;

God doesn't want us carrying anything that is unnecessary because it will weigh us down and hinder what He has called us to do.

God doesn't want us carrying anything that is unnecessary because it will weigh us down and hinder what He has called us to do. And we must not go to battle without the things we need in order to win.

Put whatever burden you are carrying into His hands— because He loves you, and nothing is too hard for Him.

Worry is an old man with a bent head, carrying a load of feathers he thinks is lead.

Be a presence carrier rather than a burden bearer.