Thanks to being profoundly rooted in Christ, he was able to bear a burden which transcends merely human abilities.
When you can't bear something but it goes on anyway, the person who survives isn't you anymore; you've changed and become someone else, a new person, the one who did bear it after all.
The Book of Mormon is no fake. I know what I know. I have seen what I have seen and I have heard what I have heard. I have seen the gold plates from which the Book of Mormon is written. An angel appeared to me and others and testified to the truthfulness of the record, and had I been willing to have perjured myself and sworn falsely to the testimony I now bear I could have been a rich man, but I could not have testified other than I have done and am now doing for these things are true.
I find the weight of airAlmost too great to bear.
Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
I love those adult writers with the pranking ethos, [Don] DeLillo and [Donald] Barthelme and David Foster Wallace. I don't see any reason not to bring those kinds of influences to bear on books for children.
If women had power, what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but men who can?" "Hah!" went Tenar; and presently, with some cunning, she said, "Haven't there been queens? Weren't they women of power?" "A queen's only a she-king," said Ged. She snorted. "I mean, men give her power. They let her use their power. But it isn't hers, is it? It isn't because she's a woman that she's powerful, but despite it.
One can bear anything of which one is able to conceive.
This is the gospel. The just and loving Creator of the universe has looked upon hopelessly sinful people and sent His Son, God in the flesh, to bear His wrath against sin on the cross and to show His power over sin in the resurrection so that all who trust in Him will be reconciled to God forever.
American life, in large cities, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves; it is out of asceticism, out of unworldliness, precisely, that we bear it.
Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species.
Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius, the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear it farther than suns and stars.
Bird and bear and hare and fish, give my love her fondest wish.
And the truth shall bear witness of itself.
How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear.
I'm not a very gregarious person. I can't bear attention being called to me in a public place, which is ridiculous in a business that pays you to be noticed.
Dear Lord,” she said in a strangled whisper. “I can bear it for a while. . . but please don't let it hurt forever.
What are friends for, if not to help bear our sins?
Have you not love enough to bear with me, when that rash humor which my mother gave me makes me forgetful.
Young people in particular, I appeal to you: bear witness to your faith through the digital world.