When you are oppressed with the weight of any duty or service in your calling, improve your trust in God’s power. Perhaps you find the duty of your calling too heavy for your weak shoulders: lay the heaviest end of your burden in God’s shoulder. When at any time you are sick of your work and ready with Jonah to run from it, encourage yourself with that which God said to Gideon; ‘Go in this your might’, has not God called you? … Such a bountiful heart your God has, that while you are asking for a little peace and joy, He bids you to open your mouth wide and He will fill it. Set your needs all before the Almighty. God has strength enough to give.
William Gurnall, The Christian in Complete Armor
As quoted in Voices from the Past, Puritan Devotional Readings, edited by Richard Rushing
