Quotes about Balance

God is wrath and God is mercy. The State is the instrument of his wrath, the Church of his mercy

The Church must run the risk of dilution rather than leave the state to the cold light of reason, unwarmed by tenderness.

that prudence of yours makes you veer about, determined not to commit yourself to either side, but to pass safely between Scylla and Charybdis; with the result that, finding yourself battered and buffeted by the waves in the midst of the sea, you assert everything you deny and deny everything you assert.

There is no person on earth so bad that he does not have something about him that is praiseworthy. Why is it, then, that we leave the good out of sight and feast our eyes on the unclean things? It is as though we enjoyed only looking at — if you will pardon the expression — a man's behind.

We must read the Fathers cautiously, and lay them in the gold balance, for they often stumbled and went astray, and mingled in their books many monkish things. Augustine had more work and labor, to wind himself out of the Father's writings, then he had with the heretics.

Where the happy medium cannot be attained, it is better and safer to fall short on this side than on that; that is, too much mercy is better than too much punishment. One can withdraw and reduce too much mercy; but punishment cannot be taken back, especially where it touches body, life, or limb.

I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.

Our Father-Mother God, all-harmonious.

And they rode for home. His ice had thawed. Her fire had calmed. They'd thrived alone, but there'd been no happiness. Together they were better, stronger, wiser, more faithful. Together they'd forged their fire and ice into the warmth of true love.

Never let a problem to be solved become more important than the person to be loved.

So enjoy present pleasures as to not mar those to come.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.