Christian Quotes SearchFound 56 quotes matching your search:  When an answer I did not expect comes to a prayer which I believed I truly meant, I shrink back from it; if the burden my Lord asks me to bear be not the burden of my heart's choice, and I fret inwardly and do not welcome His will, then I know nothing of Calvary love. Author: Amy Carmichael
Topics: Prayer, Choices | No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else.
- Charles Dickens Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Service | The gospel is called a burden and a yoke, lest we presume; yet light and easy, lest we despair.
- Euthymius Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Salvation, The Gospel | What can be lighter than a burden which takes our burdens away, and a yoke which bears up the bearer himself?
- Bernard of Clairvaux Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Trials | | Only good things come from God's hands. He never gives you more than you can bear. Every burden prepares you for eternity. Author: Basilea Schlink
Topics: Providence | | Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position. Author: C.S. Lewis
Source: The Abolition of Man
Topics: Morality | |
| | We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded. Author: Charles Kingsley
Topics: The Bible | | Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden. Author: Corrie Ten Boom
Topics: Prayer | | Fall on your knees and grow there. There is no burden of the spirit but is lighter by kneeling under it. Prayer means not always talking to Him, but waiting before Him till the dust settles and the stream runs clear. Author: F.B. Meyer
Topics: Prayer, Waiting | | Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. Author: G.K. Chesterton
Topics: Animals, Freedom | | None knows the weight of another's burden. Author: George Herbert
Topics: Compassion | | It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down. For the needs of today we have corresponding strength given. For the morrow we are told to trust. It is not ours yet. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear. Author: George Macdonald
Topics: Worry, Trust, Strength | | I was delivered from the burden that had so heavily suppressed me. The spirit of mourning was taken from me, and I knew what it was to truly rejoice in God my Savior. Author: George Whitefield
Topics: Joy | | What is needed for happy effectual service is simply to put your work into the Lord's hand, and leave it there. Do not take it to Him in prayer, saying, "Lord, guide me, Lord, give me wisdom, Lord, arrange for me," and then arise from your knees, and take the burden all back, and try to guide and arrange for yourself. Leave it with the Lord, and remember that what you trust to Him you must not worry over nor feel anxious about. Trust and worry cannot go together. Author: Hannah Whitall Smith
Topics: Trust, Worry | | That cross inmate of your household, who has hitherto made life a burden to you, and who has been the Juggernaut car to crush your soul into the dust, may henceforth be a glorious chariot to carry you to the heights of heavenly patience and long-suffering. Author: Hannah Whitall Smith
Topics: Suffering, Patience | | Christians, who have given themselves into the care and keeping of the Lord Jesus, still continue to bend beneath the weight of their burden, and often go weary and heavy-laden throughout the whole length of their journey. Author: Hannah Whitall Smith
Topics: Christians, Worry | | Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings. Author: Harry Emerson Fosdick
Topics: Religion | | Christianity removes the attraction of the earth; and this is one way in which it diminishes men's burden. It makes them citizens of another world. Author: Henry Drummond
Source: Pax Vobiscum, p. 47.
Topics: Christianity, Worldliness | | His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled on to God and not weary him, though it has wearied man. Author: Henry Ward Beecher
Topics: Prayer | | Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden. Author: Hosea Ballou
Topics: Good and Evil | | Abide in Me says Jesus. Cling to Me. Stick fast to Me. Live the life of close and intimate communion with Me. Get nearer to Me. Roll every burden on Me. Cast your whole weight on Me. Never let go your hold on Me for a moment. Be, as it were, rooted and planted in Me. Do this and I will never fail you. I will ever abide in you. Author: J.C. Ryle
Topics: Obedience, Faith | | Were it not for an unquestioning faith, human progress would be an intolerable burden. Author: James H. Aughey
Topics: Faith | | Our prayer must not be self-centered. It must arise not only because we feel our own need as a burden we must lay upon God, but also because we are so bound up in love for our fellow men that we feel their need as acutely as our own. To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them. Author: John Calvin
Topics: Prayer, Intercession | | The work of redemption was accomplished by Christ in His death on the cross and has in view the payment of the price demanded by a holy God for the deliverance of the believer from the bondage and burden of sin. In redemption the sinner is set free from his condemnation and slavery to sin. Author: John F. Walvoord
Topics: Redemption | | Our toil is sweet with thankfulness, Our burden is our boon; The curse of earth's gray morning is, The blessing of its noon. Author: John Greenleaf Whittier
Topics: Service, Temptation, Thankfulness | | 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. Author: John Newton
Topics: Perseverance | | I do not understand how a man can be a true believer, in whom sin is not the greatest burden, sorrow and trouble. Author: John Owen
Topics: Conviction | | The greatest sorrow and burden you can lay upon the Father, the greatest unkindness you can do to Him is not to believe that He loves you. Author: John Owen
Topics: Unbelief | | My burden is to plead for the supremacy of God in preaching--that the dominant note of preaching be the freedom of God's sovereign grace, the unifying theme be the zeal that God has for his own glory, the grand object of preaching be the infinite and inexhaustible being of God, and the pervasive atmosphere of preaching be the holiness of God. Author: John Piper
Topics: Preaching, Grace | | I want no Christmas without a burden for lost souls, a message for sinners, a heart to bring in the lost sheep so dear to the Shepherd, the sinning souls for whom Christ died. Author: John R. Rice
Topics: Christmas, Evangelism | | Not till I die or not till Jesus comes, will I ever be eased of this burden, these tears, this toil to save souls. Author: John R. Rice
Topics: Evangelism | | So, I tell you, it is foolish to expect the infinite God to place the dynamite of Heaven in the careless hands of a Christian who does not know the travail of soul that Christ had, and has not entered into the burden for sinners and the sense of shame over sin. Author: John R. Rice
Topics: Heaven | | He that takes his cares on himself loads himself in vain with an uneasy burden. I will cast my cares on God; he has bidden me; they cannot burden him. Author: Joseph Hall
Topics: Faith | | He that taketh his own cares upon himself loads himself in vain with an uneasy burden. I will cast all my cares on God; he hath bidden me; they cannot burden him. Author: Joseph Hall
Topics: Faith | | The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider - the riders contend for its possession. Author: Martin Luther
Topics: Rebellion | | I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
Topics: Love, Hatred | | There is a burden of care in getting riches; fear in keeping them; temptation in using them; guilt in abusing them; sorrow in losing them; and a burden of account at last to be given concerning them. Author: Matthew Henry
Topics: Finances | | One of the most subtle burdens God ever puts on us as saints is this burden of discernment concerning other souls. He reveals things in order that we may take the burden of these souls before Him and form the mind of Christ about them. It is not that we bring God into touch with our minds, but that we rouse ourselves until God is able to convey His mind to us about the one for whom we intercede. Author: Oswald Chambers
Topics: Prayer, Intercession, Discernment | | The earth has grown old with its burden of care, But at Christmas it always is young, The heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, And its soul full of music breaks the air, When the song of angels is sung. Author: Phillips Brooks
Topics: Christmas | | The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden. Author: Phillips Brooks
Topics: Struggles | | Duties are ours, events are God's. This removes an infinite burden from the shoulders of a miserable, tempted, dying creature. On this consideration only can he securely lay down his head and close his eyes. Author: Richard Cecil
Topics: Service, Obedience | | We can build influence by self promotion, but God will only promote those who do not promote themselves. That which is built on self-promotion will have to be maintained by human striving. Those who allow God to build the house have taken a yoke that is easy and a burden that is light. Author: Rick Joyner
Topics: Selfishness | | The cross of Christ is the sweetest burden that I ever bore; it is such a burden as wings are to a bird, or sails to a ship, to carry me forward to my harbor. Author: Samuel Rutherford
Topics: Perseverance, The Cross | | Happy is the man who renounces everything which may bring a stain or burden upon his conscience. Author: Thomas a Kempis
Topics: Conscience | | If you bear the cross unwillingly, you make it a burden, and load yourself more heavily; but you must bear it. Author: Thomas a Kempis
Topics: Suffering, Perseverance, The Cross | | Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless. Author: Thomas a Kempis
Topics: Love | | Love alone makes heavy burdens light and bears in equal balance things pleasing and displeasing. Love bears a heavy burden and does not feel it, and love makes bitter things tasteful and sweet. Author: Thomas a Kempis
Topics: Love, Bitterness | | When sin is your burden, Christ will be your delight. Author: Thomas Watson
Topics: Sin | | People are usually better in adversity, than prosperity. A prosperous condition is not always so safe. True, it is more pleasing to the flesh - but it is not always best. In a prosperous state, there is more burden. Many look at the shining and glittering of prosperity - but not at the burdens of prosperity. Author: Thomas Watson
Source: The Lord's Prayer.
Topics: Adversity, Prosperity | | A spiritual Christian should welcome any burden which the Lord brings his way. Author: Watchman Nee
Topics: Christians | | Let us recognize this one thing: burden is the secret of prayer. If a person does not feel within him burden to pray for a particular matter he can hardly succeed in prayer. In a prayer meeting some brothers and sisters may mention a great many subjects for prayer. But if you are not touched inwardly, you cannot pray. Author: Watchman Nee
Topics: Prayer | | All spiritual prayers have their source in God. God makes known to us what we ought to pray by unfolding to us the need and by giving that need as a burden in our intuitive spirit. Only an intuitive burden can constitute our call to pray. Author: Watchman Nee
Topics: Prayer | | The burdens of the spirit differ from the weights on the spirit. A burden of the spirit, on the other hand, is given by God to His child for the purpose of calling him to work, to pray, or to preach. It is a burden with purpose, with reason, and for spiritual profit. Author: Watchman Nee
Topics: Holy Spirit, Service | | The burden imparted by God is lifted once we have prayed, but the heaviness from the enemy cannot be raised unless we fight and resist in prayer. Author: Watchman Nee
Topics: Prayer, Satan | | Frequently the burden or concern in the spirit is for prayer. Author: Watchman Nee
Topics: Prayer | | A burden shared is a lighter load. Author: Woodrow Kroll
Topics: Trials |
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Found 11 quotes containing your search: | We have accounts of the deification of men in pagan mythology. But I do not remember any account of a god becoming a man, to help man. Whoever heard of Jupiter or Mars or Minerva coming down and attempting to bear the burdens of men? The gods were willing enough to receive the gifts of men, but Christianity is unique in the fact that our God became a man with human infirmity and emptied Himself of the glory of heaven, in order that He might take upon Himself the sins, diseases and weakness of our humanity. Author: A.C. Dixon
Topics: God | If your heart takes more pleasure in reading novels, or watching TV, or going to the movies, or talking to friends, rather than just sitting alone with God and embracing Him, sharing His cares and His burdens, weeping and rejoicing with Him, then how are you going to handle forever and ever in His presence? You'd be bored to tears in heaven, if you're not ecstatic about God now!
- Keith Green Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Worship, Heaven, The Heart | | There is no more blessed way of living, than the life of faith based upon a covenant-keeping God - to know that we have no care, for He cares for us; that we need have no fear, except to fear Him; that we need have no troubles, because we have cast our burdens upon the Lord, and are conscience that He will sustain us. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Faith | | To sit long in one posture, poring over a book, or driving a quill, is in itself a taxing of nature; but add to this a badly-ventilated chamber, a body which has long been without muscular exercise, and a heart burdened with many cares, and we have all the elements for preparing a seething cauldron of despair, especially in the dim months of fog. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Source: The Minister's Fainting Fits, Lectures to My Students, Lecture XI, 1856.
Topics: Health | | Many of those who once were so passionately in love with Christ now run about pursuing their own interests. They're burdened down with stress and problems, chasing after riches and the things of this world. Author: David Wilkerson
Topics: Rebellion, Wealth | | The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments. Author: George Washington
Topics: Government | | Marriage has in it less of beauty, but more of safety, than the single life; it hath not more ease, but less danger; it is more merry and more sad; it is fuller of sorrows and fuller of joys; it lies under more burdens, but is supported by all the strengths of love and charity; and those burdens are delightful. Author: Jeremy Taylor
Topics: Marriage | | We should try our best to pour out all the burdens in our spirit by prayer until all of them have left us. Author: Watchman Nee
Topics: Prayer | | To remove warfare from a spiritual life is to render it unspiritual. Life in the spirit is a suffering way, filled with watching and laboring, burdened by weariness and trial, punctuated by heartbreak and conflict. It is a life utterly outpoured for the kingdom of God and lived in complete disregard for one's personal happiness. Author: Watchman Nee
Topics: Prayer, Trials | | He who is willing to suffer for God and men does not live for himself; but those who daily seek sensuous pleasures and become apprehensive about bearing burdens for God and the church are living only for themselves. Author: Watchman Nee
Topics: Suffering | | 'Not called!' did you say? 'Not heard the call,' I think you should say. Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned entreat you to go to their father's house and bid their brothers and sisters, and servants and masters not to come there. And then look Christ in the face, whose mercy you have professed to obey, and tell him whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish his mercy to the world." Author: William Booth
Topics: Evangelism, The Bible |
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