Quotes about Burden
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
— Maya Angelou
To every man his little cross. (He sighs.) Till he dies. (Afterthought.) And is forgotten.
— Samuel Beckett
Christ's cross is such a burden as sails are to a ship or wings to a bird.
— Samuel Rutherford
His cross is the sweetest burden that ever I bare: it is such a burden as wings are to a bird, or sails to a ship, to carry me forward to my harbour.
— Samuel Rutherford
T]hose who can take that crabbed tree handsomely upon their back, and fasten it on cannily, shall find it such a burden as wings unto a bird, or sails to a ship.
— Samuel Rutherford
It's a tough thing-you get in a situation where you feel you have to be perfect all the time and it sucks.
— Leonardo DiCaprio
When you understand that evangelism isn't converting people, but that it is telling them the wonderful truth about God, the great news about Jesus Christ, then obedience to the call to evangelize can become certain and joyful. Understanding this increases evangelism, as it moves away from being a guilt-driven burden to being a joyful privilege.
— Mark Dever
Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life.
— George Eliot
As long as I have the friendship of the sesasons life will never be a burden to me.
— Henry David Thoreau
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].
— Henry David Thoreau
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.
— John Newton
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