Religious Burden Quotes

Too often [the Church] is weighted down and burdened with the sins and failings of her children; too often she appears disfigured and discouraged.

I see the work the pope has to do. It is a huge responsibility. Nobody campaigns for it.

What a terrible thing it would be to be the Pope! What unthinkable responsibilities to fall on your shoulders at an advanced age! No privacy. No seclusion. No sin.

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

When I was growing up, I, like many Jews, cheered what appeared to be the receding of faith from everyday life. The further religion got from our lives the better our lives would get, I thought, because persecution had been such a burden to Jewish families for generations.

I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.

I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer.

What is amazing is how we treat a meeting with God as ordinary or burdensome.

I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.

I think of religion as something that stains the person. It's a mindset you can never get free from, it's always in the back of your head.

How very hard it is to be a Christian!

[R]eligion cannot share the material strength of the rulers without being burdened with some of the animosity roused against them.

The minister's brain is often the "poor-box" of the church.