Quotes about Balance

You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.

One who prays ceaselessly is one who combines prayer with work and work with prayer.

The author explores the result of endless choice. It is not only overload, but a profound loss of unity, solidity, and coherence in life.

the modern world has scrambled things so badly that today we worship our work, we work at our play, and we play at our worship.

There is a time for stories, and there is a time for rational arguments, and the skill we need lies in knowing which to use, and when.

The faithfulness principle (of the conservative) and the flexibility principle (of the liberal) are two sides of the same coin. They are both necessary if Christians are to follow their instructions and remain simultaneously "in" the world but not "of" it.

Biography can overwhelm philosophy in the best of us.

Mastering our emotions has nothing to do with asceticism or repression, for the purpose is not to break the emotions or deny them but to "break in" the emotions, making them teachable because they are tamed.

Modern life assaults us with an infinite range of things we could do, we would love to do, or some people tell us we should do. But we are not God and we are neither infinite nor eternal. We are quite simply finite. We have only so many years, so much energy, so many gray cells, and so many bank notes in our wallets. 'Life is too short to...' eventually shortens to 'life is too short.

Never look for justice in this world, never cease to give it.

Some of us are like the Dead Sea, always taking in but never giving out, because we are not rightly related to the Lord Jesus.

We become side-tracked if we make physical health our aim and imagine that because we are children of God we shall always be perfectly well.