Quotes About Burden

How many a poor immortal soul I have met well-nigh crushed and smothered under its load, creeping down the road of life, pushing before it [an oversized home].

He sobbed in desperation at the burden of fear he carried with him every day of his life.

Either the Baby Boomers are not going to have the retirement life that they expect or taxpayers are going to be hit with a tremendously huge bill. Or both.

Start your future with an act of cruelty and continue your life carrying it in your soul

If she opened the closet with her skeletons, they might drag her in with them.

Each day we hold things in our heart, sometimes these things are heavy. Carrying God's grace with us each and every day lightens life's load.

We can fill our lives with 'stuff, ' but as we do we're concurrently filling our lives with the obligation to maintain that 'stuff.

Some people are given relatively fair lives. But others-they carry the burden of the unfairness of the world.

The longer we live, the more weight we carry in our hearts.

I have sometimes thought that I have been burdened with a pack of ten misfortunes, any one of which if borne by my neighbor would be enough to make a murderer out of him.

After all, no relationship could function or survive under the burden of total honesty.

Bricks on your back are easier to carry than pebbles on your soul.

Baggage is a funny thing. The more you have of it, the heavier it becomes and the longer it takes to reach your destination in life.

She was always tired, these days. She put on one of those smiles that wasn't really a smile at all, and they went on.

Notice how our economists still act as though replacing human labor with fossil fuel-derived energy is always a good idea, even at a time when unemployment is pandemic and the cost of energy is a rising burden on economies around the world.

We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.

The greatest sorrow and burden you can lay on the Father, the greatest unkindness you can do to him is not to believe that he loves you.

Knowledge about Him will not do. Work for Him will not do. We must have personal, vital fellowship with Him; otherwise, Christianity becomes a joyless burden.

In the never-ending battle between order and chaos, clutter sides with chaos every time. Anything that you possess that does not add to your life or your happiness eventually becomes a burden.

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.

We are told that this is an odious and unpopular tax. I never knew a tax that was not odious and unpopular with the people who paid it.

In every respect the burthen is hard on those who attack an almost universal opinion.

Politicians also have a love affair with the 'small business exemption.' Too much paperwork? Too heavy a burden? Not enough time? Just exempt small businesses from the rule. It sounds so pro-growth. Instead it's an admission that the costs of a regulation just can't be justified.