Crosses To Bear Quotes

• I have always believed that God never gives a cross to bear larger than we can carry. No matter what, he wants us to be happy, not sad. birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?

  Rose Kennedy

  Giving, Bird, Storm

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• Whatever our personal burden or cross to bear might be, we are here. We live! We Learn! The Grand Adventure is under way for us. Terrible as our trials might be, we are blessed and not abandoned by God.

  Elaine A. Cannon

  Blessed, Learning, Adventure

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• Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear and we all just do our best.

  Yoko Ono

  Bed Of Roses, Widows, Bears

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear, and we all just do our best. I would never claim to have the worst situation. There are many widows, and many people dying of AIDS, many people killed in Lebanon, people starving all over the planet. So we have to count our lucky stars.

  Yoko Ono

  Stars, Bed Of Roses, Worst Situation

  "Yoko Ono, a Decade After the 'Horrible Thing' : John Lennon's widow still lives under a shadow, but, she says, 'It's not a bad time'". Interview with Glenn Plaskin, articles.latimes.com. May 06, 1990.

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• I'm a sex addict. It's my cross to bear. It's a real disease with doctors and medicine and everything!

  Will Ferrell

  Sex, Real, Medicine

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• It has not been an easy cross to bear. It has caused considerable confusion. My husband constantly complained about the awkwardness of being married to a woman whom he called Sister.

  Sister Parish

  Sister, Husband, Confusion

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• Must the Christian go around looking for a cross to bear, seeking to suffer? No, insisted Bonhoeffer. Opportunities for bearing crosses will occur along life's way and all that is required is the willingness to act when the time comes. The needs of the neighbor, especially those of the weak and downtrodden, the victimized and the persecuted, the ill and the lonely, will become abundantly evident.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Lonely, Opportunity

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• We all need to take a deep breath and think about being a Bush daughter and having that cross to bear. I'd go out and have a couple of drinks too.

  Julia Roberts

  Daughter, Mother, Couple

  "Julia Roberts defends Bush daughters". www.theguardian.com. June 25, 2001.

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  There is no evil to be faced that Christ does not face with us. There is no enemy that Christ has not already conquered. There is no cross to bear that Christ has not already borne for us, and does not now bear with us.

  Pope John Paul II

  Evil, Catholic, Enemy

  Pope John Paul II, Achille Silvestrini, Jerome M. Vereb (1999). “A Pilgrim Pope: Messages for the World”, p.272, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• The children of God all have a cross to bear. A suffering Savior generally has suffering disciples.

  J. C. Ryle

  Children, Suffering, Bears

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• Each woman is made to feel it is her own cross to bear if she can't be the perfect clone of the male superman and the perfect clone of the feminine mystique.

  Betty Friedan

  Perfect, Males, Bears

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• Sometimes being different is not going to be the most popular thing. But you have to be confident in you and what you know is right and stand firm. You may lose friends over it. Families may even split up because of it. But that's the price to pay. That's the cross to bear when you really live your life for Christ.

  DeLisha Milton-Jones

  Live Your Life, Being Different, Splits

  "A conversation with WNBA star and Olympic gold medalist DeLisha Milton-Jones". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• Time is, in fact, a cross to bear, it passes on inexorably and remorselessly, destroying everything in its wake, save art and works of the intellect.

  Harrison Schmitt

  Art, Facts, Bears

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• Psychologically, we all have that cross to bear when we do shady things.

  Jimmi Simpson

  Bears, Shady, Crosses

  Source: collider.com

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• We all have our crosses to bear. We carry them heavily, out of love for our brothers in arms. But sometimes you have to let go of the idea that anyone down here is in control.

  Marcus Luttrell

  Letting Go, Brother, Ideas

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• Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked with

  Stephen Vizinczey

  Two, People, Wages

  Stephen Vizinczey (1990). “An Innocent Millionaire”, p.123, University of Chicago Press

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• It's a very specific body. Even great reviews will be like: chubby, portly, overweight. . . . Sometimes I'm like, 'Ugh, how did I make myself the guinea pig for this?' But on the other hand, hating my body has not been my cross to bear in this life. Which I feel very lucky about.

  Lena Dunham

  Hate, Hands, Pigs

  "Lena Dunham's Glamour April Issue Cover-Shoot" by Jonathan Bernstein, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2017.

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• Today's comedian has a cross to bear that he built himself. A comedian of the older generation did an act and he told the audience, This is my act. Today's comic is not doing an act. The audience assumes he's telling the truth. What is truth today may be a damn lie next week.

  Lenny Bruce

  Lying, Next Week, Comedian

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• I'm a fine artist working in a commercial arena, so that's my cross to bear

  Joni Mitchell

  Artist, Bears, Arena

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• I was never a big fashion person, and so I'm sure I wore whatever. I was growing, and so I just wore whatever clothes that weren't that expensive and made sense at the time. But I'm sure that I look back and say, 'What was I thinking?' My adolescence was more in the '80s, and that's more my cross to bear.

  Vince Vaughn

  Fashion, Thinking, Clothes

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• Amy [Schumer] and I each have our cross to bear when it comes to tattoos. Amy and I are funny when we fight. It just keeps escalating until one of us starts laughing. Then it's over. I'm happy that we're friends.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Tattoo, Fighting, Laughing

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• I have six illegitimate children," Villiers informed her, not kindly. She visibly paled. :My daughter is marrying a duke," the duchess said between clenched teeth. "True, he apparently has the morals of a squirrel, but that's my cross to bear.

  Eloisa James

  Daughter, Children, Squirrels

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• He could feel V's eyes sharpen, the vampire's fierce intellect churning over the situation. Among the brothers, Vishous had the most raw brainpower, but he paid for the privilage. Man, Wrath sure had his own demons, and they were no walk in the park, but he wouldn't have wanted Vishous's cross to bear. Seeing what had yet to come was a terrible burden. -Wrath's thoughts

  J.R. Ward

  Brother, Eye, Men

  J.R. Ward (2005). “Dark Lover: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.125, Penguin

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