Quotes about Burden
No man is without his load of trouble.
— Thomas a Kempis
When you carry the WEIGHT of yesterday, it will ruin the POWER of today and the PROGRESS of tomorrow.
— Tony Evans
Always touched with sympathy for human infirmities, we bear the burden of nations in our hearts.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Loosed of his burden, Christian makes his way to the bottom of the hill where he finds three men fast asleep. Foolish represents spiritual dullness and ignorance. Sloth represents spiritual laziness. Presumption represents spiritual pride and arrogance. The consequences of all three conditions are self-inflicted incarceration and lack of progress on the King's Highway.
— John Bunyan
As we walk our individual life journeys, we pick up resentments and hurts, which attach themselves to our souls like burrs clinging to a hiker's socks. These stowaways may seem insignificant at first, but, over time, if we do not occasionally stop and shake them free, the accumulation becomes a burden to our souls.
— Richard Paul Evans
“I relieved his shoulder of the burden; his hands were freed from the basket.
— Psalm 81:6
Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of its trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse for impossibility, for it thinks all things are lawful for itself and all things are possible.
— Thomas a Kempis
When I learned to forgive, it was like a million pounds were lifted from me.
— Reba McEntire
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.
— John Owen
If you bear the cross unwillingly, you make it a burden, and load yourself more heavily; but you must bear it.
— Thomas a Kempis
For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was drained as in the summer heat. Selah
— Psalm 32:4
It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.
— Henry Ward Beecher