Quotes about Balance

Dreaming about a thing in order to do it properly is right; but dreaming about it when we should be doing it is wrong.

When someone thinks that to develop a holy life he must always be alone with God, he is no longer of any use to others.

Whenever we put other things first, there is confusion.

Holiness is the balance between my nature and the law of God as expressed in Jesus Christ.

Be careful that you don't become a hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right with God before you worship Him yourself.

The battle is not against sin or difficulties or circumstances, but against being so absorbed in work that we are not ready to face Jesus Christ at every turn.

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

Never let your common sense become so prominent and forceful that it pushes the Son of God to one side.

To live a distant, withdrawn, and secluded life is diametrically opposed to spirituality as Jesus Christ taught it.

We are half mechanical [physical] and half mysterious [spiritual]; to live in either domain and ignore the other is to be fools or fanatics... We have to WORK OUT in the mechanical realm what God WORK IN in the mysterious realm.

There are not three stages in spiritual life—worship, waiting and work. Some of us go in jumps like spiritual frogs, we jump from worship to waiting, and from waiting to work. God's idea is that the three should go together. They were always together in the life of Our Lord. He was unhasting and unresting. It is a discipline, we cannot get into it all at once.

We have to WORK OUT in the mechanical [physical] realm what Gods WORKS IN [us] in the mysterious [spiritual] realm. Beware of any spiritual emotion that you do not work out mechanically...