Pastoral Resources

The dreadful burden of having nothing to do.

We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect.

Respect the burden.

The burden of proof is now on the Palestinians... They must fight terrorism and dismantle its infrastructures in order to make possible progress on the roadmap.

Because the world is in economic recession, which worsened since this drama happened, and our country will bear the burden of all of these consequences.

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them.

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

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.

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.

There I was limited to what happened the same way I am with Riel. It doesn't feel like a great burden to have your story, to some degree, set. I am enjoying figuring out what I think is the most dramatic way of telling this set of historical facts.

This double burden of disease is rapidly putting a serious brake on the development efforts of many countries.

The burden of disease falls on the poor.

The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

Americans are also feeling the effects of soaring energy prices at the gas pump. The double burden of these added expenses will be far too much for many families.

Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

The most consistent gift and burden of motherhood is advice.

If we do not act now to strengthen Social Security, the system that so many depend upon today will be unable to meet its promises to tomorrow's retirees, and it will burden our children and grandchildren with exhaustive taxes.

I feel sometimes that in children's books there are more and more grim problems, but I don't know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them.