Yoke Quotes

116 quotes by 94 authors

Let us trust in Him who has placed this burden upon us. What we ourselves cannot bear let us bear with the help of Christ.… — Saint Boniface
Losses and crosses are heavy to bear; but when our hearts are right with God, it is wonderful how easy the yoke becomes. — Charles Spurgeon
To this must be added that the hiring of labor and the conduct of trade are concentrated in the hands of comparatively few; so that… — Pope Leo XIII
Religion is the yeast of death cakes. It is the most awful agent on a vulnerable mind. It's the refuge of alienated and lonely people.… — Dylan Moran
I seek to lead a democratic Pakistan which is free from the yoke of military dictatorship and that will cease to be a haven, the… — Benazir Bhutto
There is such a thing as the freedom of exhaustion. Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up....… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Virtue cannot dwell with slaves, nor reign O'er those who cower to take a tyrant's yoke. — William C. Bryant
Yield not thy neck To fortunes yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance. — William Shakespeare
The bachelors admired freedom is often a yoke, for the freer a man is to himself the greater slave he often is to the whims… — George Jean Nathan
If we can get that realistic feminine morality working for us, if we can trust ourselves and so let women think and feel that an… — Ursula K. Le Guin
To bear lightly the neck's yoke brings strength; but kicking against the goads is the way of failure. — Pindar
The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes… — Carl Jung
For them (the peoples of the Soviet Union) We cherish the warmest paternal affection. We are well aware that not a few of them groan… — Pope Pius XI
Action must be taken at once; there is no time to be lost; we shall yet see the oppressors' yoke broken and the fragments scattered… — Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
Not he who scorns the Saviour's yoke Should wear his cross upon the heart. — Friedrich Schiller
That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing. — George Eliot
Treason and murder ever kept together, As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose, Working so grossly in a natural cause That admiration did not whoop… — William Shakespeare
A bachelor May thrive by observation on a little, A single life's no burthen: but to draw In yokes is chargeable, and will require A… — John Ford
When a monarchy gradually transforms itself into a republic, the executive power there preserves titles, honors, respect, and even money long after it has lost… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The yoke you wear determines the burden you bear. — Edwin Louis Cole

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