Quotes About Burden

Prayer isn't where we change God, but He changes us. Instead of praying for OUR desires, let's pray He burden us with HIS.

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 is an exchange. We leave our burdens, worries and sin in the hands of God. We come away with oil of joy and the garment of praise.

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.

Cast thy burden upon the Lord and he shall sustain thee.

If Christianity is dull and boring, if it is a burden and not a blessing, then most likely we are involved in a project, not a Person - a system not a Savior, rules rather than a relationship.

For an instant, Karras throbbed with a surge of rebellion, with a dull, weary anger at the piling on of weight upon weight.

Everybody's behind the eight-ball!

The guilt being great, the fear doth still exceed.

The mind of guilt is full of scorpions.

A load would sink a navy.

A grievous burden was thy birth to me;Tetchy and wayward was thy infancy.

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

O happy horse, to bear the weight of Antony!

Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger.

So shaken as we are, so wan with care.

Asses are made to bear, and so are you.

George Bernard Shaw once observed: "People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

Blessed mood,In which the burthen of the mystery,In which the heavy and the weary weightOf all this unintelligible world,Is lightened.