Quotes about Balance

Christian life is not a life divided between times for action and times for contemplation. No. Real social action is a way of contemplation, and real contemplation is the core of social action.

There are two extremes to avoid: being completely absorbed in your pain and being distracted by so many things that you stay far away from the wound you want to heal.

There is within you a lamb and a lion. Spiritual maturity is the ability to let lamb and lion lie down together.

Whereas discipline without discipleship leads to rigid formalism, discipleship without discipline ends in sentimental romanticism.

Joy and resentment cannot coexist.

I have always been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted; then I realized that the interruptions were my work.

Your way of being present to your community may require times of absence, prayer, writing, or solitude. These too are times for your community.

However, if I were to let my life be taken over by what is urgent, I might very well never get around to what is essential. It's so easy to spend your whole time being preoccupied with urgent matters and never starting to live, really live.

We all are children and parents, students and teachers, healers and in need of care.

When you get exhausted, frustrated, overwhelmed, or run down, your body is saying that you are doing things that are none of your business. God does not require of you what is beyond your ability, what leads you away from God, or what makes you depressed or sad.

It is important for us to realize that Jesus in no way wants us to leave our many-faceted world. Rather, he wants us to live in it, but firmly rooted in the center of all things. Jesus does not speak about a change of activities, a change in contacts, or even a change of pace. He speaks about a change of heart.

It was hard for me to see God at work in my life when I was running from class to class and traveling from place to place.