I will light candles this Christmas, Candles of joy, despite all sadness, Candles of hope where despair keeps watch. Candles of courage where fear is ever present, Candles of peace for tempest-tossed days, Candles of grace to ease heavy burdens. Candles of love to inspire all my living, Candles that will burn all the year long.
— Howard Thurman
Staggering Heavy Burdens quotations
Life is like unto a long journey with a heavy burden.
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.
Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness.
What fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being.
My yoke is easy, and my burden light.
That many-faceted thing called love succeeds in building bridges from the loneliness on this shore to the loneliness on the other one. These bridges can be of great beauty, but they are rarely built for eternity, and frequently they cannot tolerate too heavy a burden without collapsing.
Let me begin now, this very night, to emulate Christ.
Cast off forever will be the old self and with it defeat, despair, doubt, and disbelief. To a newness of life I come--a life of faith, hope courage, and joy. No task looms too large; no responsibility too heavy; no duty is a burden. All things become possible.
Don't ask God to give you a light burden.
Ask Him to give you strong shoulders to carry a heavy burden.
"In life you can never be too kind or too fair;
everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with."
No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
When your spirit is heavy, when your heart is broken, when your burdens seem unbearable - trust Him. Look to Him.
If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens.
If your words are worthless, don't give advice.
Forces of good and evil are massed and armed and opposed as rarely before in history. Freedom is pitted against slavery; lightness against the dark... In the final choice, a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains.
If dead things love, if earth and water distinguish friends from enemies, I should like to possess their love. I should like the green earth not to feel my step as a heavy burden. I should like her to forgive that she for my sake is wounded by plough and harrow, and willingly to open for my dead body.
What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.
I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility.
I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love.
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.
Love carries through many difficulties easily and makes heavy burdens light.
The genius writer was correct. In obtaining freedom, man suddenly understands that he has shouldered a heavy burden, because freedom involves responsibility. A person must make decisions himself and himself answer for them.
Soaring prescription drug costs have placed a tremendous strain on family budgets. They have also imposed a heavy burden on employers - both public and private - who are struggling to provide affordable health insurance coverage to their workers.
If politicians were serious about day care for children, instead of just sloganizing about it, nothing they could do would improve the quality of child care more than by lifting the heavy burden of taxation that forces so many families to have both parents working.
The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.
This business of womanhood is a heavy burden.
Carrying a grudge is a heavy burden. As you forgive, you will feel the joy of being forgiven.
A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
A heart's a heavy burden.
All speech should be presumed to be protected by the Constitution, and a heavy burden should be placed on those who would censor to demonstrate with relative certainty that the speech at issue, if not censored, would lead to irremediable and immediate serious harm.
When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.
Humor makes our heavy burdens light and smoothes the rough spots in our pathways.
Sweet serenity is found in fervent prayer.
Then, we forget ourselves and remember the reaching hands of the Savior, who said, "Come unto me, all ye that are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." As our burdens are shared with Him, they do become lighter.
I have my choice: who can wish for more? Free will enables us to do everything well while imposition makes a light burden heavy.
The burden of keeping three people in toilet paper seemed to me rather a heavy one.
A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.
