Quotes about Balance

We have become human "doings" rather than human "beings.

If we are going to build a culture of discipleship, we will have to learn to balance invitation and challenge appropriately.

balance invitation and challenge appropriately

It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.

We spend more time learning how to make a living than we do learning to make a life.

The husband provides direction; the wife, maintenance.

Beauty matters, dare I say, almost as much as spirituality and justice.

God's justice is a saving, healing, restorative justice, because the God to whom justice belongs is the Creator God who has yet to complete his original plan for creation and whose justice is designed not simply to restore balance to a world out of kilter but to bring to glorious completion and fruition the creation, teeming with life and possibility, that he made in the first place.

The most important decisions we make in life are not made by post-Enlightenment left-brain rationality alone.

But, granted that learning without love is sterile and dry, enthusiasm without learning can easily become blind arrogance.

The wrath of God is simply the shadow side of the love of God for his wonderful creation and his amazing human creatures. Like a great artist appalled at the way his paintings

From the beginning no serious Christian has been able to say 'This is my culture, so I must adapt the gospel to fit within it', just as no serious Christian has been able to say 'This is my surrounding culture, so I must oppose it tooth and nail'. Christians are neither chameleons, changing colour to suit their surroundings, nor rhinoceroses, ready to charge at anything in sight.