Quote#Children
Then Jesus spoke: "Bring here thy burden
Quote byAnna Bartlett Warner · 1827–1915
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 99..
English (original)
Then Jesus spoke: "Bring here thy burden, And find in me a full release; Bring all thy sorrows, all thy longings, And take instead my perfect peace. Trying to bear thy cross alone! — Child, the mistake is all thine own."
— Anna Bartlett Warner
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