Daily Inspiration Quote by Richard G. Scott

“Lay the burden at the feet of the Savior” is pastoral triage: a short sentence engineered to stop spiraling minds by redirecting agency. Richard G. Scott, speaking as a senior LDS leader, isn’t offering a vague spiritual bromide. He’s prescribing a practiced ritual of relief within a theology where Christ’s atonement isn’t only about sin in the abstract, but about repair, weakness, grief, and the exhausting private math of “I should be able to handle this.”

The verb “lay” matters. It’s physical, almost domestic: set it down, don’t negotiate with it, don’t carry it like proof of worthiness. The line also quietly corrects a common religious failure mode: turning suffering into a solitary performance. In Latter-day Saint culture, where self-discipline and responsibility are prized, “burden” can easily become a badge. Scott’s phrasing gives permission to stop fetishizing endurance and to treat help-seeking as faithful, not flaky.

“Feet” is the subtextual masterstroke. It pulls the listener into an intimate, embodied scene - not a distant deity, but proximity, hierarchy, and trust. You don’t place something at someone’s feet unless you believe they can hold it, and you’re willing to be seen doing it. That’s also the soft demand embedded in the comfort: surrender. Not resignation, but relinquishing control over outcomes, shame, and timing.

Contextually, Scott often addressed pain, repentance, and trauma with a pragmatic spirituality: act where you can, then offload what you cannot. The intent is both consoling and disciplinary: relief comes, but through relationship and submission, not sheer grit.