Quotes about Burden

Almost all people are carrying a great and secret hurt, even when they don't know it.

Unless and until we can enjoy this, so much of what passes for Christianity will amount to little more than well-disguised narcissism and self-referential politics. We see this phenomenon playing out in the de facto values of people who strongly identify as Christian. Often they are more racist, classist, and sexist than non-Christians. "Others can carry the burden and the pain of injustice, but not my group," they seem to say.

It is from the power of taxation being in the hands of those who can throw so great a part of it from their own shoulders, that it has raged without a check.

It is a solemn thing to find oneself drawn out in prayer which knows no relief till the soul it is burdened with is born. It is no less solemn afterwards, until Christ is formed in them.

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

Prayer gives us relief from the melancholy burden of self-absorption .

The burden imparted by God is lifted once we have prayed, but the heaviness from the enemy cannot be raised unless we fight and resist in prayer.

His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled on to God and not weary him, though it has wearied man.

Frequently the burden or concern in the spirit is for prayer.

Our minds can be kept free of anxiety as we dump the load of our cares on the Lord in prayer.

There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.

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