Divine Burden Quotes

Christ took hold of the work of the world's saving in a larger way than it is possible for us to do, and therefore the burden of His undertaking came upon Him in a heavier, wider, and more crushing way than it can come upon us; and therefore, while it overwhelmed Him in sorrow, our smaller mission and lighter task can with entire propriety leave us buoyant and gladsome.

You have no idea what hangs in the balance of your decision on what to do with the burden God put in your heart.

Thank God I am not God! Thank God I am not God!

The Lord doesn't give a person more than he knows they can bear.

If we could all hear one another's prayers, God might be relieved of some of his burdens.

Prayer isn't where we change God, but He changes us. Instead of praying for OUR desires, let's pray He burden us with HIS.

Is religion subjective? Nay, its soul is in objectivity, in an Other whose Life is our true life, whose Love is our love, whose Joy is our joy, whose Peace is our peace, whose burdens are our burdens, whose Will is our will. Self is emptied into God, and God in-fills it.

Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old.

For me, when you have to prepare to play God, and then walking away from that, you realize just how tough God's job is. I don't want that job.

He, then, that would really, thoroughly, and acceptably mortify any disquieting lust, let him take care to be equally diligent in all parts of obedience, and know that every lust, every omission of duty, is burdensome to God, though but one is so to him.

Some out of their own virtue make a god who sometimes later is a nuisance to them, a terror perhaps to them, a difficult thing to be forgetting.

His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled on to God and not weary him, though it has wearied man.

How tired God must be of guilt and loneliness, for that is all we ever bring to Him.