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• Unconfessed sin is a terrible, heavy burden to carry. God loves us too much to have unconfessed sin.

  Johnny Hunt

  Leadership, Christian, Church

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

  Andy Stanley

  Leadership, Christian, Heart

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• For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

  Dorothy Dix

  Heart, Men, People

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• Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves the necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Men, Choices, Liberty

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• The aim is not therefore to liberate some 'essential self' by throwing off the burden of government and the State, but to develop the self in creative and voluntary relations with others.

  Peter Marshall

  Self, Government, Creative

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• A man like me should carry his burdens alone. If he doesn't people get hurt

  Dennis O'Neil

  Hurt, Men, People

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• Humor makes our heavy burdens light and smoothes the rough spots in our pathways.

  Sam Ervin

  Light, Pathways, Heavy

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• Soon it will be a sin of parents to have a child that carries the heavy burden of genetic disease. We are entering a world where we have to consider the quality of our children.

  Bob Edwards

  Children, Parent, Quality

  "Science friction", www.theguardian.com. September 21, 1999.

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• In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom; but he who reflects not, never reaps; has no harvest from it, but carries the burden of age without the wages of experience; nor knows himself old, but from his infirmities, the parish register, and the contempt of mankind. And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing.

  Edward Young

  Age, Action, Life Is

  Edward Young, John Doran, James Nichols (1854). “The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.: Revised and Collated with the Earliest Editions. To which is Prefixed A Life of the Author”, p.489

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• All I'm arguing for really is that we should have a conversation where the best ideas really thrive, where there's no taboo against criticizing bad ideas, and where everyone who shows up, in order to get their ideas entertained, has to meet some obvious burdens of intellectual rigor and self-criticism and honesty-and when people fail to do that, we are free to stop listening to them. What religion has had up until this moment is a different set of rules that apply only to it, which is you have to respect my religious certainty even though I'm telling you I arrived at it irrationally.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Honesty, Self

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• Here is a vocation that will bring you more satisfaction than if you became a millionaire ten times over: Develop the extraordinary skill for detecting the burdens of others and devote yourself daily to making them lighter.

  John Piper

  Skills, Satisfaction, Millionaire

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• Whatever his secret was, I have learnt one secret too, and namely: that the soul is but a manner of being - not a constant state - that any soul may be yours, if you find and follow its undulations. The hereafter may be the full ability of consciously living in any chosen soul, in any number of souls, all of them unconscious of their interchangeable burden.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Numbers, Soul, Secret

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• I compare the troubles which we have to undergo in the course of the year to a great bundle of sticks, far too large for us to lift. But God does not require us to carry the whole at once. He mercifully unties the bundle, and gives us first one stick, which we are to carry today, and then another, which we are to carry tomorrow, and so on. This we might easily manage, if we would only take the burden appointed for us each day; but we choose to increase our troubles by carrying yesterday's stick over again today, and adding tomorrow's burden to our load, before we are required to bear it.

  John Newton

  Years, Yesterday, Giving

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• I hate all pain, Given or received; we have enough within us The meanest vassal as the loftiest monarch, Not to add to each other's natural burden Of mortal misery.

  Lord Byron

  Pain, Hate, Add

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• There is much in American society which I admire, but I have long held the view that the absence of an effective safety net in that country means that too many needy citizens fall by the wayside. That is not the path that Australia will tread. Nor do we want the burdens of nanny state paternalism that now weigh down many economies in Europe.

  John Howard

  Country, Fall, Mean

  Australia Day Address, January 25, 2006.

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• I like what I do. Some writers have said in print that they hated writing and it was just a chore and a burden. I certainly don't feel that way about it. Sometimes it's difficult. You know, you always have this image of the perfect thing which you can never achieve, but which you never stop trying to achieve. But I think ... that's your signpost and your guide. You'll never get there, but without it you won't get anywhere.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Writing, Thinking, Perfect

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• Easy is the descent to hell; all night long, all day, the doors of dark Hades stand open; but to retrace the path; to come out again to the sweet air of Heaven - there is the task, there is the burden.

  Virgil

  Sweet, Dark, Night

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• I think a lot of the way I live my life is not just for me, which has sometimes been a burden. A lot of the choices I make are in order to make them [my parents] proud.

  Kelli O'Hara

  Thinking, Order, Choices

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Environmental justice is the movement to ensure that no community suffers disproportionate environmental burdens or goes without enjoying fair environmental benefits.

  Van Jones

  Justice, Community, Suffering

  Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2008.

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  Talk about your blessings more than you talk about your burdens.

  Tim Tebow

  Blessing

  Twitter post from Apr 03, 2014

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• To pray is to cast off your burdens, it is to tear away your rags, it is to shake off your diseases, it is to be filled with spiritual vigor, it is to reach the highest point of Christian health.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Spiritual, Tears

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• The function of the machine is to liberate man from brute burdens, and release his energies to the building of his intellectual and spiritual powers for conquests in the fields of thought and higher action.

  Henry Ford

  Spiritual, Men, Intellectual

  Henry Ford (1926). “Today and tomorrow”

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• We found in the course of our journey the convenience of having disencumbered ourselves, by laying aside whatever we could spare; for it is not to be imagined without experience, how in climbing crags and treading bogs, and winding through narrow and obstructed passages, a little bulk will hinder, and a little weight will burden; or how often a man that has pleased himself at home with his own resolution, will, in the hour of darkness and fatigue, be content to leave behind him everything but himself.

  Samuel Johnson

  Home, Journey, Men

  Samuel Johnson (2010). “Journey to the Hebrides: A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland & The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.24, Canongate Books

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• I believe the place of prayer is not only a place where I lose my burdens, but also a place where I get a burden. He shares my burden and I share His burden. ... To know that burden, we must hear the voice of the Spirit. To hear that voice, we must be still and know that He is God.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Prayer, Believe, Voice

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• Don't ask God to give you a light burden. Ask Him to give you strong shoulders to carry a heavy burden.

  Bob Jones, Sr.

  Strong, Light, Giving

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