Quotes About Burden

That he loved her was his life's greatest grace—that she loved him was a burden and mystery beyond compare.

The sum of all the things we shouldn't have done in our lives is enough to kill us with the weight.

You shouldn't carry the weight of it. Be sad, be sorry - but don't shoulder it.

He is an aggregate who must shoulder the burden of village, family, parents, ancestors. . . . When the first missionary to Japan, Francisco Xavier, began his labours in the southern provinces, this was the most formidable obstacle he encountered. The Japanese said, "I believe the Christian teachings are good. But I would be betraying my ancestors if I went to a Paradise where they cannot dwell."[1]

Each secret you carry has a weight all its own. They add up, secrets, to a burden you must carry all your days.

Every radish I ever pulled up seemed to have a mortgage attached to it.

In the end, Americans will have to decide whether or not this country will remain racist. To make that decision, we will have to avoid the trap of placing the burden of our national sins on the shoulders of Donald Trump. We need to look inward. Trump is us. Or better, Trump is you.

The past is a pebble in my shoe.

To continue to condemn only brings condemnation, then, for self. This does not mean that self's activity should be passive, but rather being constant in prayer--knowing and taking, knowing and understanding that he that is faithful is not given a burden beyond that he is able to bear . . .

If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.

An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.

Somewhere under the heavy burden of water going nowhere, under the silence, the old rocks of the river channel waited for the promised resurrection. Promised by whom? Promised by Capt. Joseph "Seldom Seen" Smith; by Sgt. George Washington Hayduke; by Dr. Sarvis and Ms. Bonnie Abbzug, that's whom. But

This mystery of use without consumption, of warmth without combustion, seems like magic, but was merely an ingenious application of the art now happily lost but carried to great perfection by your ancestors, of shifting the burden of one's support on the shoulders of others.

Begone, dull Care! I prithee begone from me!Begone, dull Care! Thou and I shall never agree.

My punishment is greater than I can bear.

When you dig another out of their troubles, you find a place to bury your own.

Let the dead bury their dead.

Are you wrinkled with burden? Come to God for a faith lift.

You're only as sick as your secrets.

God tells us to burden him with whatever burdens us.

Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows.

You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt.

Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

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