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Quotes About Burden

It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the burden
~ Mark Twain
Thank God when He lays a burden on thee, and thank Him when He takes it off.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
For forty days, for forty nights Jesus put one foot in front of the other and the man he carried, if it was a man, became heavier and heavier.
~ Anne Sexton
Losses and crosses are heavy to bear; but when our hearts are right with God, it is wonderful how easy the yoke becomes.
~ Charles Spurgeon
To many, God is not someone you know but something you try to get off your back.
~ Chris Fabry
I bear a burden that might well try Men that do all by rule, And what can I That am a wandering-witted fool But pray to God that He ease My great responsibilities?
~ William Butler Yeats
Oh God. Why, oh why, did I have to be the one to deliver this news? Why couldn't I be locked away in my room or the library doing something enjoyable, like homework?
~ Richelle Mead
My problems are as light as a feather because god carries them for me
~ Skylar Laine
Good is that darkening of our lives, Which only God can brighten; But better still that hopeless load, Which none but God can lighten.
~ Frederick William Faber
He that taketh his own cares upon himself loads himself in vain with an uneasy burden. I will cast all my cares on God; He hath bidden me; they cannot burden Him.
~ Joseph Hall
It is better to have God over your shoulder, than carry the world alone on your back.
~ Anthony Liccione
If our foundation is on God, then our burden becomes His and we sail through smoothly.
~ Latika Teotia
Forgiveness allows the burdens that we carry to become the histories that we forget.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
Heavy burden is laid on our hearts, so we do not trust in ourselves. But in God gives grace for endurance.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
If you keep the burden on your head, God (Bhagwan) will move away.
~ Dada Bhagwan
Being good felt like a heavy coat, so I took it off.
~ Naomi Shihab Nye
There is no such thing as a good tax.
~ Unknown
Cleverness is a burden after that. You are supposed to settle down and be a good person, raise your children, and be good to your friends, which you may not have been back when you were clever.
~ Garrison Keillor
I don't think I would have been a good mother. Being a parent brings immense responsibility. It's a Herculean task. It would be almost too much for me.
~ Julie Christie
The United States government can indict you on something, and now you've got to prove your innocence. And that's not the Constitution of the United States.
~ Leonard Peltier
In order to spur economic growth we need to put the brakes on out of control spending, lower Ohioans tax burden and create a most efficient and effective government.
~ Ken Blackwell
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
The saving grace of all really great gifts is that the persons who bear their burden remain superior to what they have done, at least as long as the source of creativity is alive.
~ Hannah Arendt
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
~ George Bernard Shaw