Burdensome Thing Quotes

#1. I knew that Sundays in England aren't just ordinary dull Sundays, the same the world over, which demand that one simply tiptoe through without disturbing them or paying them the least attention, they are vaster and slower and more burdensome than anywhere else I know.

Javier Marias

#2. I, myself, sank into that abysmal pit of feeling utterly worthless, useless and burdensome. Caring for an animal, especially one that's been rescued, can help return people to a sense of being needed and useful.

Ken Wahl

#3. To be sensitively aware of thought, of feeling, of the world about you, of your office and of nature, is to explode from moment to moment in affection. Without affection, every action becomes burdensome and mechanical and leads to decay.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#4. Moralism and its stepchild, legalism, reduce the love story of God for his people to the observance of burdensome duties and oppressive laws.

Brennan Manning

#5. Vulgarity finds its antidote; old crudities become softened with time. Distinctions, both those that are useful and those that are burdensome, flourish and die, reflourish and die again.

Robert Burchfield

#6. Wisdom is at all times the least burdensome traveling pack.

William Camden

#7. Trust free people and free enterprise as opposed to meddling, burdensome government.

George Allen

#8. Many think that the price of discipleship is too costly and too burdensome. For some, it involves giving up too much. But the cross is not as heavy as it appears to be. Through obedience, we acquire much greater strength to carry it.

James E. Faust

#9. Nothing is more burdensome than an unfinished task.

Jim Rohn

#10. Yajna is not yajna if one feels it to be burdensome or annoying.

Mahatma Gandhi

#11. The most reasonable of requests felt burdensome if a person had no choice in the matter.

Juliet Marillier

#12. To retrieve the past is no great effort, when the events to be recalled are so firmly imprinted on the mind. It is existence in the present, the bleak wreckage and residue of what has gone before, that is so burdensome.

K.W. Jeter

#13. In any real democracy, magistracy isn't a benefit - it's a burdensome responsibility that can't fairly be imposed on one individual rather than another

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#14. That which renders life burdensome to us generally arises from the abuse of it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#15. Worry is a part of life. These burdensome thoughts plaque us all. The key is not to let these thoughts ruin your day & your life.

Timothy Pina

#16. One no longer becometh poor or rich; both are too burdensome. Who still wanteth to rule? Who still wanteth to obey? Both are too burdensome.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#17. Let me start by emphasizing that I am open to efforts to expedite environmental procedures for true emergencies or in other clear cases where current laws are needlessly burdensome.

Sherwood Boehlert

#18. For every bridge you burn
there is the burdensome task
of building another one.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#19. Nothing is burdensome if taken lightly, and nothing need arouse one's irritation so long as one doesn't make it bigger than it is by getting irritated.

Seneca.

#20. The Obama administration has already imposed burdensome regulations - for instance, the sprawling Clean Power Plan aimed at wiping out the coal industry - that will raise the cost of energy and put hundreds of thousands of Americans out of work.

John Barrasso

#21. When a book remembers, we remember. It reminds you that you have a body. So many of the things we may think of as burdensome are actually the things that make us more human.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#22. It is not death therefore that is burdensome, but the fear of death.

Ambrose Burnside

#23. He, then, that would 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 only one be burdensome to him.

John Owen

#24. Since bad men find the rule of kings no less burdensome than that of tyrants, the recognition of the right of private citizens to kill tyrants involves rather more chance of losing a king than of being relieved of a tyrant.

William Archibald Dunning

#25. If you have an open, loving, positive attitude, anything burdensome in life can be lightened!

James Van Praagh

#26. Sorrows when shared are less burdensome, though joys divided are increased.

Bill Vaughan

#27. However many and however great and burdensome your sins may be, with God there is greater mercy. Just as His majesty is, so likewise is His mercy.

Patriarch Tikhon Of Moscow

#28. Above all, do not loose your desire to walk. Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it.

Soren Kierkegaard

#29. My dear Scipio and Laelius. Men, of course, who have no resources in themselves for securing a good and happy life find every age burdensome. But those who look for all happiness from within can never think anything bad which Nature makes inevitable.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#30. The real trouble is that the pure Word of Jesus has been overlaid with so much human ballast - burdensome rules and regulations, false hopes and consolations - that it has become extremely difficult to make a genuine decision for Christ.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer