Quotes about Heavy
Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed. Think whether much of your sorrow has not arisen from someone speaking slightingly of you. As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal, how can you hope to find inward peace.
- AW Tozer
As soon as the ark of God was mentioned, Eli fell backward from his chair by the city gate, and being old and heavy, he broke his neck and died. And Eli had judged Israel forty years.
- 1 Samuel 4:18
Now the hand of the LORD was heavy on the people of Ashdod and its vicinity, ravaging them and afflicting them with tumors.
- 1 Samuel 5:6
And when the men of Ashdod saw what was happening, they said, “The ark of the God of Israel must not stay here with us, because His hand is heavy upon us and upon our god Dagon.”
- 1 Samuel 5:7
and spoke to them as the young men had advised, saying, “Whereas my father made your yoke heavy, I will add to your yoke. Whereas my father scourged you with whips, I will scourge you with scorpions.”
- 1 Kings 12:14
Whereas my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. Whereas my father scourged you with whips, I will scourge you with scorpions.’”
- 2 Chronicles 10:11
“Even today my complaint is bitter. His hand is heavy despite my groaning.
- Job 23:2
For my iniquities have overwhelmed me; they are a burden too heavy to bear.
- Psalm 38:4
For there is a right time and procedure to every purpose, though a man’s misery weighs heavily upon him.
- Ecclesiastes 8:6
My servants will shout for joy with a glad heart, but you will cry out with a heavy heart and wail with a broken spirit.
- Isaiah 65:14
And again Jesus returned and found them sleeping—for their eyes were heavy.
- Matthew 26:43