Quotes about Burden
Only by trusting in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
A man is a little soul carrying around a courpse.
- Marcus Aurelius
Armor is heavy, yet it is a proud burden, and a man standeth straight in it.
- Mark Twain
Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you carry the WEIGHT of yesterday, it will ruin the POWER of today and the PROGRESS of tomorrow.
- Tony Evans
Whenever religion becomes a depressing affair of burdens and prohibitions, it ceases to be true religion.
- William Barclay
Too much happens…. Man performs, engenders, so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything…. That's what's so terrible.
- William Faulkner
When God lays a burden on our hearts and thus keeps us praying, He obviously intends to grant the answer.
- J. Oswald Sanders
When God places a burden upon you, He places His arms underneath you.
- Charles Spurgeon
Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God.
- Martin Luther